j e s r u s h . c o m

This overlooked film comes out of nowhere and sucker punches you were it counts. Joan Allen plays a mother of four teenage daughters who is abandoned by her husband when he runs off to Sweden with his secretary. She and her children struggle to cope with the subsequent chaos while Allen becomes increasingly angry and slips into a deep depression. It’s a really well done study of the stranglehold which anger can put on human life and of the importance of perception. We saw this in the theatre and folks were so moved that they actually clapped out loud when the credits rolled. That doesn’t happen often. A must see!