Lovley and Amazing
| Year: | 2001 |
| Production Co: | Good Machine |
| Director: | Nicole Holofcener |
| Writer: | Nicole Holofcener |
| Cast: | Catherine Keener, Emily Mortimer, Jake Gyllenhaal |
A sweet and quirky arthouse movie about family dysfunction, one that rides on the grinning, earthy shoulders of Catherine Keener as a woman trying to hold it together with too many faults, downfalls and episodes of bad luck.
A conflagration of interesting characters weave their way through the narrative, and while none of it's terribly original, it's all raw, honest, sad and funny - from her increasingly desperate actress sister (Mortimer) to her high-maintenance mother with the precocious, adoptive black daughter, her unsupportive husband or the kid with whom she embarks on an affair (Gyllenhaal) despite being old enough to be his mother.
A conflagration of interesting characters weave their way through the narrative, and while none of it's terribly original, it's all raw, honest, sad and funny - from her increasingly desperate actress sister (Mortimer) to her high-maintenance mother with the precocious, adoptive black daughter, her unsupportive husband or the kid with whom she embarks on an affair (Gyllenhaal) despite being old enough to be his mother.