Victor is a struggling playwright and theater director and his girlfriend Mary is expecting their first child. He has a temporary job in construction to make ends meet, but the dusty, dirty job exhausts him. Across town, Mary is a manager in a tony Madison Avenue boutique. The young couple is about to move out of their bohemian apartment in Brooklyn to the suburbs, all funded by Mary's father. As Dad keeps buying buying them things they could never afford, Victor's sense of entrapment grows. His inner struggle to meet their expectations seems to be guiding him towards a way of life he is unwilling to accept.
Acting
Louis Cancelmi's crumbling restraint as Victor hits different.
Direction
Kocharian lets awkward silences do the heavy lifting.
Director
Haik Kocharian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real-life father-daughter duo Sam and Elisabeth Waterston play father and daughter here — those tense dinner scenes hit different knowing the actual DNA involved.
Shot in 2014 Brooklyn right before the neighborhood fully surrendered to luxury condos, capturing a specific pre-gentrification-apocalypse creative class panic.
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