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Comedy, Drama
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy ensemble dramas where ordinary routines, moral failures, and sudden tragedies intersect with wry social observation.
- Tone
- darkly comic, melancholic, satirical
- Payoff
- reflection, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- episodic
- Themes
- interconnected lives, infidelity, grief, alienation, chance
- Setting
- contemporary, sprawling urban neighborhoods and domestic interiors