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Dir. Nicole Holofcener. Cast: Rebecca Hall, Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt

Kate (Catherine Keener has a lot on her mind. There‘s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store. And how much markup can she get away with? There‘s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter (Sarah Steele) to want the expensive things that Kate wants. There‘s the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business and life with her husband Alex (Oliver Platt)  but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And, there‘s Kate‘s free-floating 21st century malaise – the problem of how to live well and be a good person when poverty, homelessness, and sadness are always right outside the door.

Plus, there‘s the neighbours: cranky, elderly Andra and the two granddaughters who look after her (Rebecca Hall and  Amanda Peet. As Kate, Alex and Abby interact with the people next door, with each other, and with their New York surroundings, a complex mix of animosity, friendship deception, guilt, and love plasy out with both sharp homour and pathos.

REBECCA HALL JOINS US FOR A SPECIAL Q&A SCREENING ON MON 21 JUNE – CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.