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
Zooey Deschanel
Reese Holden
Will Ferrell
Corbit
Ed Harris
Don Holden
Amy Madigan
Lori Lansky
Amelia Warner
Shelly
John Bedford Lloyd
Leontes
Deirdre O'Connell
Deirdre
Mandy Siegfried
Ruth
Dallas Roberts
Ray
Ivan Martin
Bartender
Mary Jo Deschanel
Mary
Sam Bottoms
Brian
Anthony Rapp
Dean
Rachel Dratch
Female MC
Michael Chernus
Ben
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.
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