

Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
Acting
Ed Harris's weathered novelist is devastating.
Writing
Adam Rapp's playwright roots show in the dialogue.
Director
Adam Rapp
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This bombed so hard it barely got a theatrical release, becoming a secret Zooey Deschanel deep cut for '00s indie completists.
Adam Rapp wrote this after his own father, a novelist, died—making the father-daughter tension uncomfortably autobiographical.