Brian d’Arcy James and Monica Barbaro star in the writer-director’s second feature as a couple whose story of love and estrangement is viewed through the eyes of their son.
If, as Tolstoy put it, happy families are all alike, that’s probably because they’re opaque to the rest of us, for whom friction and rifts are as much a part of the kindred experience as love.
Jesse, the hyper-observant only child at the center of Ricky D’Ambrose’s, takes in all the specifics of his unhappy family — not just his parents’ divorce when he’s 10, not just his father’s ongoing struggles, financial and otherwise, but the awkward silences and generational baggage, the rite-of-passage celebrations straining toward grace.
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