DVD 110 IMDB 5.7

In Collection
#8163

Comedy, Drama

Ellen Burstyn	Shirley Cooperberg
Amanda Plummer	Susan Cooperberg
Ted Levine	Eli Cooperberg
Mary McDonnell	Diane
Genevieve Bujold
Macha Grenon	Linda
Mark Blum	Edward Cooperberg
Jacob Tierney	Simon Cooperberg
Geneviève Bujold	Joelle
Roc LaFortune	TV Repairman
Geneviève Brouillette	Nurse
Dorothee Berryman

Director	Shimon Dotan
Producer	Shimon Dotan; Netaya Anbar
Writer	Oren Safdie

The grown Cooperberg siblings reluctantly assemble at the hospital to await the results of their father's surgery: Edward (Mark Blum), a theater producer and renowned womanizer, Eli (Ted Levine), the self-proclaimed poet who works in the family business and Susan (Amanda Plummer), the artist who still lives off her parents while justifying it as a "grant". Holding them all together while simultaneously pushing them apart is their mother, Shirley (Ellen Burstyn), who can't help but criticize her children's chosen paths in life, reducing them to a state of infancy. Wrought with divorce, infidelity and sexual confusion, the characters spiral out of control, only to realize that it is only by opening old wounds of the past that each one can face the future. Add an omnipresent nun (Genevieve Bujold), wives and ex-wives, an existentialist TV repairman, sexy nurses and other interesting characters and what results is a day you will never forget.