Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups. Eventually, they hit rock bottom and have to make some hard decisions.
Acting
Judy Davis weaponizes brittle desperation like no one else
Writing
Tolkin's script treats spiritual seeking as another status symbol
Direction
Unflinching gaze at characters you love to loathe
Director
Michael Tolkin
Peter Weller
Peter Witner
Judy Davis
Katherine Witner
Patrick Bauchau
Jean Levy
Rachel Rosenthal
Sarah Friedberg
Adam West
Jeff Witner
Paula Marshall
Alison Gale
Bruce Ramsay
Misha
Tanya Pohlkotte
Bettina
Susan Traylor
Ellen Saltonstall
Patricia Heaton
Anna
John Diehl
Lyle
Maureen Mueller
Laura
Sandra Seacat
Mary Netter
Samuel L. Jackson
Dale Deveaux
Audra Lindley
Sandi Rego
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released at peak 90s 'spiritual marketplace' boom, satirizing the exact moment yoga and crystals became yuppie accessories rather than counterculture.
Adam West plays Peter's father in a rare serious role, casting Batman as the embodiment of failed American masculinity that the son desperately replicates.
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