Writer-director Nicole Holofcener uses this bittersweet comedy to tease out the eccentricities from an otherwise ordinary family. There's Jane Marks (Brenda Blethyn), the middle-aged mum who was once partial to threesomes, and her slender daughter Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer), an aspiring actress who succumbs to the casting couch after developing a complex about her 'fat' arms. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's stroppy sister, wannabe artist Michelle (Catherine Keener), sets out to please her husband by taking a McJob at a one-hour photo shop...
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