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- Couple RelationsFamily LifeUnfulfillmentCouplesFamily ProblemsFamily RelationsCrumbling MarriageDealing With Death more...
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- DramaIndependent
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- Contemporary21st Century
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- New YorkUSA
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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, 2009
English
USA
Profile of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
The mood of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is emotional, touching, and gloomy. The plot centers around themes of unfulfillment, family problems, and family life. It is a drama and independent movie. Stylistically, it stars a strong female character. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The setting is New York. It happens in contemporary times. It is based on a book. Note that it includes sexual content and profanity.
Summary of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
Families never turn out quite according to plan, and Emilia Greenleaf (Portman) certainly never imagined herself the shunned stepmother. But after winning Jack (Scott Cohen) away from his wife Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow), she finds herself immersed in the cross-currents of a new hybrid family. Now second wife to her former lover, she's forced to work out new relationships with her unco-operative stepson and his acerbic mother, who is still very much in the boy's life.Shadowing Emilia's every attempt to get to know the stubborn, precocious young William (Charlie Tahan) is the unbearable loss of a baby she and Jack had hoped would cement their new marriage. Ostracized for wrecking Jack's previous life and berated by Carolyn at every opportunity, Emilia increasingly distances herself from Jack, and is in danger of drowning in domestic disappointment.Roos has made a career of crafting rich, layered roles for leading women. He allows his female characters to show the full range of their complicated selves, deepening our empathy as we follow their struggle. And he always leavens his portraits with humour. Watching Emilia grapple with William's elaborate dietary requirements is to glimpse what it's like to raise a child in Manhattan.Roos directs Kudrow to a great performance, and gives Portman the room to show some of the fire she brought to Closer. Emilia is a woman who shuttles from grief to helplessness to anger, until she begins to find a way to define herself again. In all her conflicted glory, she is a wonder to behold.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 5 November 2009 |
| Runtime: | 119 min |
Cast and Crew
as Emilia Greenleaf
as Jack
as Carolyn
as William
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