Grieving widower Garret Blake builds boats for a living. Rebuilding his life-that's another matter. But that's before Theresa Osborne comes to his North Carolina village. Theresa a lonely divorcee and researcher for the Chicago Tribune knows that Garret is the author of the message she found inside a bottle on a Cape Code beach. And she knows the message spoke to her in away that profoundly touched her heart. Kevin Costner as Garret and Robin Wright Penn as Theresa bring high-voltage starpower to Message in a Bottle a tale of love lost and found based on Nicholas Sparks' bestseller and directed by Luis Mandoki (White Palace When a Man Loves a Woman). "You choose-the paste or the future. Pick one and stick with it" Garret's spry father Dodge (Paul Newman) advises. The advice sticks. So does the impact of this tender movingly filmed tale.

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Rebecca Miller, Arthur Miller's daughter (and Daniel Day-Lewis' wife), discusses her father's legacy in a recent interview. She talks about her late father's loneliness during his last days and debunks accusations that he neglected her brother, who was institutionalized for Down syndrome. One of her novels, "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee", has been adapted into a film and chronicles the domestic unraveling of a middle-aged woman. The film will star Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello and Blake Lively among an all-star cast that also includes Julianne Moore, Monica Bellucci and Alan Arkin.

The article also points out the unconscious parallels that perhaps every writer inevitably imprints upon a work. Can one ever segregate the private from the professional as a writer? As someone once told me, rarely is anything original these days. Everything is derived from something else, no? In Miler's case, as the daughter of the renowned "Death of a Salesman" author who has come into her own despite her pedigree, the results are worth their telling.

"Arthur Miller: The demonising of my father" (Times Online)

THE PRINCESS BRIDE | A FILM BY ROB REINER

THE CLASSIC FAIRY-TALE LOVE STORY FEATURING BILLY CRYSTAL!

"When I was your age, "television" was called "books"."

With this, Grandpa (Peter Falk, TV's Columbo) introduces Grandson (Fred Savage, TV's The Wonder Years) to "The Princess Bride", S. Morgenstern's tale of high adventure. What follows is a delightful story interspersed with Grandpa and Grandson bantering about how to tell the story and other things. Director Rob Reiner (This is Spinal Tap) brings a great cast and a great script together to make one of the greatest films of all-time. 

Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn, Forrest Gump) is a beautiful young lady on a farm in the countryside. She spends her time tormenting the farm boy, Westley (Cary Elwes, Saw). His only answer is "As you wish." Buttercup soon realizes that he means, "I love you," when he says that. Soon the couple are swept in love. Westley leaves to get money for marriage. But he is killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts, and Buttercup is devastated. Meanwhile, Prince Humperdink (Chris Sarandon, Dog Day Afternoon) has chosen her to be his bride. Buttercup doesn't love Humperdink, and only finds joy in her daily rides. On one of them, she is captured by the Sicilian genius Vizzini (Wallace Shawn, voice of Rex in Toy Story films) and his cohorts: the oft-drunk Spaniard Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin, TV's Criminal Minds) and Turkish wrestler Fezzik (Andre the Giant, WWF wrestling). Along the ride, they meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, go through the Fire Swamp, and encounter a very interesting character...Billy Crystal!

Though it was not a huge success at its release, The Princess Bride has grown in popularity, often being shown on network and cable television. There are many great points and few weak points about this movie.

Positives: The acting in this film is ridiculously good. Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, and Robin Wright Penn all give great performances as the three leads. Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest (as Humperdink's right-hand man Count Rugen) and Wallace Shawn give crazy great performances as supporting actors. And, Billy Crystal is hilarious as Miracle Max and Andre the Giant's transition from wrestler to actor is seamless. "It's not my fault I'm the biggest and the strongest. I don't even exercise." The script in this film is also ridiculously good. The Writers Guild of America named the screenplay the 84th greatest of all-time, beating films such as Forrest Gump and Memento. There are so many one-liners. Lemme give you a few here:

• "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."-Inigo Montoya
• "I only dog paddle."-Fezzik's response to Vizzini's plea to jump into the water
• "Ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?...Morons."-Vizzini
• "I always think everything could be a trap-which is why I'm still alive."-Humperdink to Rugen
• "And this is for posterity, so, be honest."-Rugen to Westley
• "Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world. Except for a nice MLT, a mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They're so perky, I love that. But that's not what he said. He distinctly said "to blave." And, as we all know, "to blave" means "to bluff," huh? So you're probably playing cards, and he cheated!"-Miracle Max

It is based on a great play, and has some of the sharpest, smartest dialogue I have ever heard,

it was hard to find clips for it, but check this out:

It stars a great cast including a  great sean penn, a very sexy meg ryan (who does that tanktop-bra strap thing I have wrote about), a very sweet anna paquin, and many others.

the sean penn role reminds me of me when I was younger, wildier, and yes a little bit happier....

I wish I could find a clip of the end scene, it's pretty great.





Legendary actor, filmmaker and artist Dennis Hopper will continue to serve as Chairman of the Creative Advisory Board. He has been dedicated to growing the national presence of the CineVegas Film Festival since he was honored in 2003 with CineVegas' prestigious Marquee Award for his lifetime achievements in the film industry. CineVegas has also honored such film greats as Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, Holly Hunter and Robin Wright-Penn.

Being based a masterpiece of classic literature Beowulf immediately had it’s work cut out for it, not to mention the fact that it has been adapted into different television and film versions as well.  But Robert Zemeckis takes things a step further and decides to make a fully computer animated film.  For the few of you that aren’t familiar with the story of Beowulf, it is about King Hrothgar in ancient Denmark.  His Mead hall is attacked by the demon Grendel, who kills most of the kings men.  Hrothgar announces he will give half of his kingdoms fortune to the hero who will kill Grendel.  Men come from all ends of the world, all ending in their deaths, but Beowulf is not worried about his foe when he arrives.  He lays and waits comfortably when Grendel bursts threw the huge Halls doors and begins tearing the men apart.  With no fear Beowulf takes on Grendel removing his arm and thus ending his reign of terror.  There is relief through the kingdom, but only briefly as they have by accident awakened an even greater foe.  Grendel’s mother.

The most interesting aspect of this adaptation of Beowulf is the fact that it’s done completely in CGI.  There is nothing cartoonesque about it.  It is completely realistic other than the occasional awkward moment where you capture the non-humanness of the character or animal.  The eyes even glisten with a real human feel.  The immense scale on which the entire world of Denmark and Hrothgar’s hall has been created is beautiful, dark, and intriguing.  When Beowulf battles the sea monsters, it’s almost plausible that they could or did exist in the past, along with Grendel, the diseased looking tormented demon. 

The characters are rich, due to a century of existence and common knowledge of ideals.  But due to some of sort of cliche antics along with some of the awkwardness of the CGI they somewhere lost some of the magic and depth I know so well in each of them.  The fact that Wealthow actually looked like Princess Buttercup from the Princess Bride was no doubt a subconscious animation, but distracting every time Robin Wright Penn’s voice sounded.  All I could picture was Buttercup.  The actual character of Beowulf looked so much like Sean Bean I thought I was watching Lord Of The Rings instead of Beowulf’s tale.  The only non-distracting performance was that of Hrothgar and Grendel’s mother.  Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie’s voice overs were impeccable.  Robin Wright Penn’s might have been if not for the annoying likeness to her youthful character.

The story was played out nicely enough, and the eerie build up to the climax was entertaining enough, but the main part of the story just lacked a life that it needed to connect the viewer.  It opened some doors visually and gets kudos for trying something old and making it new, but in the end was just okay.  Beowulf gets two out of four stars.

The story more-or-less followed the original as I remember it. Beowulf (Ray Winstone) comes to the kingdom of Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) which has been haunted or hunted by a bloodthirsty monster called Grendal (Crispin Glover). Beowulf waits all night for the monster to show up and tears off its arm. Then he heads off to its watery, underground lair to find and kill Grendal. Things go a bit off-track here but the ending was more-or-less on target.

The theme did confuse me though. What were the creators (Robert Zemeckis, Neil Gaiman, et. al.) trying to get across?

• Heroism is a damaging illusion?
• Don't believe everything you hear/read?
• Old English narrative poetry is suspect?
• Heroes are only human (except they can survive being whomped by monsters)?
• Having sex with a sea hag is good for your career?
• Angelina Jolie looks like a girl in a superhero comic when she's naked?
• Anthony Hopkins doesn't?

In my confusion, I turned my, not very pleased, thoughts to the female characters. I thought about the little wooden signs the female characters were holding. Grendal's mom Angelina Jolie) had "Femme Fatale"; Wealthow (Robin Wright Penn) had "Doormat." Gitte (Sonje Fortag) had "Boobs" and Ursula (Alison Lohman) was left with "Huh?" I was kind of hoping Wealthow would hit Beowulf with her sign at which Grendel's mom would snicker and Ursula would choose "sympathetic" in hopes that it is the right expression.

A sick boy (Fred Savage) is visited by his eccentric grandfather( Peter Falk) who brings him a book that the boy has little interest in, thinking it a mushy love story, but after his quirky grandfather catches his interest by explaining that it’s not just a love story, but an adventure, his grandson’s interest is perked and suddenly he wants to hear the story of Buttercup and Wesley. It is here, the narration of the story begins. 

In a land far far away a beautiful girl named Buttercup ( Robin Wright Penn) falls in love with a farm boy named Wesley (Cary Elwes). The farm boy says nothing to Buttercup other than, “As you wish”, though this phrase speaks a thousand words. He leaves for a short time and in his absence she is set to be married to Prince Humperdink (Chris Sarandon) and is taken to his castle. She takes a leisurely horse ride and is kidnapped by three bumbling bandits. It isn’t long before a pirate dressed all in black is on the trail of the Bandits and closing in quickly. It is soon revealed that this is no ordinary pirate but is actually Wesley in search of saving his beloved Buttercup. Along his journey to save Buttercup he makes allegiances that later play prevalent roles in the climax of the story, until Wesley must finally try and steal his love back from the grasps of Prince Humperdink himself. 

The Princess Bride is structured around the idea that love conquers all. But in this story of giants, coward princes, men with extra limbs, sword fights, torture, revenge, bandits, pirates, heroes and true love it’s told through a realm of comedy along with it’s epic scope. With a perfectly structured cast and fantastic screenplay it is entirely conceivable. Wesley’s unconditional love for Buttercup enables us to believe that love has no boundaries. And Buttercups conviction that he will rescue her from her fate as Humperdinks wife is unwavering. The final sword fights are meticulously choreographed and are one of the most exciting and technical ever on film. Rob Reiner captures the perfect balance of action with comedy while giving the film it’s overall feel of utter sweetness. 

It is essentially a fairy tale made for the old, the young and the in between. The Princess Bride will be able to be enjoyed for all time and is a movie everyone should put on their list to see. In an over the top way it creates a mystic fun world that everyone wants to be part of. Cheers for Buttercup and Wesley. Four out of Four stars.

On Monday, a doctor testified that Ohio's lethal injection process is inhumane. However, the doctor added that it's still more humane than actually having to live in Ohio.

The estate of Elvis Presley announced Wednesday that over 40 rare photos taken of the singer in 1972 have just been discovered. The photos are considered rare because they're the only Elvis photos of the era where he is seen not eating a cheeseburger.

The estate of Elvis Presley announced Wednesday that over 40 rare photos taken of the singer in 1972 have just been discovered. Their existence is due largely to the fact that the King preferred his photos medium-well and slathered in peanut butter.

Abu Ubaida al Masri, suspected of planning the London transportation bombings that killed 52, is believed to have died of hepatitis C. As a result, Senior Al Qaeda leaders have issued a Fatwa against sharing tattoo needles with Tommy Lee.

The New York Yankees have denied a report that a construction worker working on their new stadium secretly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under the future visiting clubhouse in an effort to jinx the team. Yankee officials knew it wasn't true since that is where construction workers buried Jimmy Hoffa.

The Laugh Factory in Los Angeles has started a TV show called "The Supreme Court of Comedy", in which people with small claims disputes use comedians as lawyers. The lawyers are expected to be especially successful when they must prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that men and women are different.

Scientists have developed a computer program that can determine anyone's ancestry. In addition, the program can also determine the number of degrees to Kevin Bacon.

On Monday, the Olympic torch did not pass through Paris as originally scheduled, due to protests. In addition, the torch will not pass through Paris Hilton so it doesn't get chlamydia.

Vanilla Ice was arrested on Friday for charges of domestic battery. Ice said he did it so he could finally say he's had more than one hit.

Vanilla Ice was arrested on Friday for charges of domestic battery. In jail, the rapper is expected to begin collaboration with his cellmate, Chocolate "Chip" Cupcake.

Vanilla Ice was arrested on Friday for charges of domestic battery. The arrest marks the first time the rapper has been charged with a crime since he pleaded guilty to stealing from Queen and David Bowie.

According to a government report, gas prices could reach four dollars per gallon sometime this summer. Unless we invade Iran.

Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn have withdrawn their divorce papers. The couple decided to stay together after Sean promised to no longer cheat on her with Hugo Chavez.

A Viking ship replica made out of ice cream sticks embarked on its maiden voyage to England. The ship has had smooth sailing despite an attack from a Lego submarine and a sea creature made out of pipe-cleaners.

Neil Patrick Harris of "How I Met Your Mother" disagreed with the network's decision to stunt-cast Britney Spears as a secretary. He added the audience already has to suspend enough disbelief in his role as a straight womanizer.

Neil Patrick Harris of "How I Met Your Mother" disagreed with the network's decision to stunt-cast Britney Spears as a secretary. He added, it's already a stretch for fans to actually believe he's reached puberty.

Miami Heat coach Pat Riley, who won three NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers, has been selected for induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, Riley's hair will be inducted into the Brylcreem Hall of Fame.

Bob Dylan was awarded a special musical Pulitzer Prize last week, for his "lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." How many awards must a protest singer get before he is officially a member of the establishment?

Lifetime has stolen popular fashion show Project Runway from Bravo. As a part of the deal the show will now be hosted by Meredith Baxter-Birney and in the first episode each contestant will design a fleeing outfit for the Woman in Jeopardy on the go!

House Democrats have voted to stall a trade pact with Colombia. Colombia plans to make up for the lost commerce by signing a trade pact with Lindsay Lohan.

House Democrats have voted to stall a trade pact with Colombia. However, Democrats who used to be mayor of Washington DC have vowed to continue trading with Colombia.

A baby girl in India was born with two faces. Doctors should have seen this coming, but unlike the baby, they don't have eyes on the back of their head.

Last week, a baby girl in India was born with two faces. The child is considered the living incarnation of Irna, the multi-tasking goddess of telephone tech support.

Last week, a baby girl in India was born with two faces. This week a girl was born with naan.

Last week, a baby girl in India was born with two faces. Luckily for the citizens of Bangladore City, Batman was able to take her into custody shortly after the delivery.

Last week, a baby girl in India was born with two faces. Doctors believe the child is healthy, but fear she might be deceiving them.

Last week, a baby girl in India was born with two faces. Doctors predict the girl will need glasses, which means kids at school will call her "eight-eyes."

Last week, Yi So-yean became South Korea's first astronaut after she rocketed into space en route to the international space station. In response, North Korean president Kim John-il has stated that space doesn't exist.

According to a new survey in the science journal Nature, 20 percent of scientists use performance-enhancing prescription drugs in order to boost their brain power, which accounts for the increased incidents of "nerd rage."

European Union officials announced new rules that would allow travelers on airplanes to use their cell phones while flying. Thanks to the new rules, frequent fliers have finally found something besides their elbow to stick in their ear - an ice pick.

On Thursday, American Airlines grounded 900 planes, resulting in a three-day total of over 2,500 cancelled flights. This eclipses the record held by Jamie Lynn Spears, who was grounded 2,000 times after she become pregnant.

A man who found a bag of unmarked cash that fell off a Brinks armored truck has turned it in to the authorities. Authorities are calling the man a hero, while the rest of us are calling him a moron.

According to a Chinese political science expert, the only effective way to protest the Beijing Olympics is to boycott the games completely. Analysts expect Americans to be the most effective protestors since nobody watches the Olympics anyway.

This week, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said the next President will have to come to grips with the reality that large numbers of American troops can't be sustained in Iraq and Afghanistan. Powell said this would catch insurgent forces off-guard in both countries, since a President coming to grips with reality would be a total surprise.

Hundreds of security officers and barricades were deployed across San Francisco last week to handle large protests against the Olympic torch. Surprisingly, most of the protestors turned out not because the Olympics are being played in China but because they feel San Francisco already has enough things that are flaming.

Hundreds of security officers and barricades were deployed across San Francisco last week to handle large protests against the Olympic torch. However, only a few security officers were able to show up, since most of them were busy trying to control the other 127 daily protests in San Francisco.

In Florida, 11 men have been arrested for attempting to solicit sex from a 14-year-old girl through the Internet. Police officials said it was a great bust, but they owed it all to one very special 14-year-old whore.

Former Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has been spending time in jail tossing footballs to fellow inmates to keep in shape. Vick even gets in football practice in the showers, where he tries really hard to not fumble the soap.

The boy band New Kids on the Block have reunited. The return coincided with massive protests around the world, fighting to keep Tibet free from New Kids on the Block.

A priest accused of stalking talk show host Conan O'Brien pleaded guilty Tuesday to disorderly conduct. The priest promised to leave O’Brien alone and to go back to stalking altar boys.

Wild turkeys have been attacking the postal carriers of Madison, Wisconsin, prompting letter carriers to defend themselves with water pistols and long sticks. In order to solve the problem, Department of Conservation agents plan to relocate the turkeys by dropping them from a plane over Cincinnati.

A new study suggests that smoking bans cause more drunk driving fatalities because people drive further to find a place without a ban. Fortunately, since most of the fatalities are smokers, they want to die anyway.

ER will end it's 15 year run on NBC next February. The news came as a shock to fans, who assumed the show had been canceled in the 90's.

The University of Kansas won the NCAA basketball championship on Monday and Mario Chalmers, who hails from Anchorage, Alaska, was named the most outstanding player. Chalmers immediately thanked Congress for not removing funding for basketball careers from nowhere.

After months of bitter infighting over disappointing performance, Mark Penn has stepped down as the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. The Clinton campaign has already announced that Penn will be replaced by Teller.

Título Original: Beowulf
Realizador: Robert Zemeckis
Actores: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson

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Nel cast di stelle superaffollato c'è stato un avvicendamento. Oltre ai vari Keanu Reeves, Monica Bellucci, Winona Ryder, Julianne Moore, Alan Arkin e Robin Wright Penn si aggiungerà la bella Maria Bello che prendereà il posto di Maggie Gyllenhaal, scritturata già qualche settimana fa, ha rinunciato al ruolo. Il ruolo ricoperto da Maggie Gyllenhaal è quello Suky, la madre di Pippa Lee in alcuni flashback. Maggie Gyllenhaal ha scelto di abbandonare il set per poter stare con il compagno Peter Sarsgaard e con la figlia.

Nella pellicola, le cui riprese dovrebbero cominciare a giorni in Connecticut, sarà prodotto dalla Elevation Filmworks. Di recente Maria Bello ha concluso le riprese di La Mummia: La tomba del Dragone imperatore, terzo capitolo dell’avventurosa saga iniziata nel ’99: nel film, che è diretto da Rob Cohen, l’attrice affianca Jet Li, Brendan Fraser e Michelle Yeoh.

Last weekend I saw the 2007 flick, “Beowolf,” on DVD. Initially, I was not impressed because I'm not a big fan of movies which apply CGI or computer-generated imagery. I can only appreciate this type of visual on video games but never in movies.

Moving on, I saw Anthony Hopkins and Robin Wright Penn so I decided to continue with this viewing session even though I'm not watching the real actors. But I didn't focus on the early scenes of the movie. So what if the monster barges into the binging and drinking session of King Hrothgar to rip bodies and hurl human limbs. Sheeesh, I saw this before.

It was only upon seeing the main character, Beowolf, that I turned serious. When he said, “If we die it will be for glory, not gold,” I realized I have to see what this hero's going to do with the monster, Grendel.

Unfortunately, I fell asleep. Surprisingly, I woke up with the line “If we die it will be for glory, not gold” echoing in my head so when night crept in, I opted to watch the movie again. This time, I made it a point to finish it.

It wasn't bad, after all.

As I remember waking up with Beowolf's dialogue in my head, I came up with a list of other movie lines that have had the same effect on me as that of Beowolf.

* “I made a promise and I kept it. Most people would have done the same.” (from “It Could Happen To You”)

* “I want some more” (from “Interview with the Vampire”)

* “If I know I am remembered that way, I can face anything, anything. You're my immortality.” (from “Sweet November”)

* “I might run away without your permission and you might hate me forever, and I know that scares the shit out of you because I'm the only real thing that you have.” (from “Reality Bites”)

* “I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? (from “Goodfellas”)

* “Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand, you can't tousle their hair, but when those senses weaken another one comes to life...Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You hold it, you dance with it. Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't – (from “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”)

* “I'll wait for you. However long it takes. I'll wait for you forever. - (from “Legends of the Fall”)

* “Death ends a life, not a relationship.” (from “Tuesdays with Morrie”)

* “My foot is telling me that I've been hurt by a shoe salesman.” (from “Only You”)

* Charlize Theron: You know, he asked me to marry him.

Jason Isaac: He's not the first...

Charlize: No, but it was the first time I wanted to say "Yes"

- from “Sweet November”

* “Men... Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.” (from “St. Elmo's Fire”)

* “You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.” (from “A Walk to Remember”)

* “I'm smart and poor.” (from “Love Story”)

* “Love does not end just because you stop seeing each other.” (from “The End of the Affair”)

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I was planning to write an entry today on John Sayles' Limbo, but that has to wait until tomorrow or the day after. Since my browser start page is BBC news, I've just read that Anthony Minghella has died. I've written about his films before (e.g. here and here); I liked many of the films I'd seen that he'd directed, and those I didn't like I still appreciated. He knew how to work with actors that I didn't particularly like (such as Gwyneth Paltrow or Robin Wright Penn). And he directed the film that convinced me that Alan Rickman wasn't Evil(tm):

A Life in Pictures: Anthony Minghella. Rest in peace.

I think I failed to mention that not only do we quote movies but we make it a game when we do. We say the quote and say name that movie or here is a movie title give me a quote. So I thought it would be fun to list some quotes and you give me the movie name. No Cheating by looking it up!

"I need your clothes, boots and your motorcycle."

"Why's all the rum gone?"

"Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory."

"As you wish."

"Get your pretty little portfolio off my desk before I go into a diabetic coma!"

"All I care about is: are you happy with your haircut?"

"That son of a bitch cut me off!"

"Did you know if you mixed equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate you can make napalm?"

"Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?"

"I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is."

"You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

"The Lord tells me he can get *me* out of this mess, but He's pretty sure you're f#%$ed.

"I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."

"Then the next time she squawks, walk right up to her and spit in her eye. That's what I'd do."

La Miller, figlia del famoso drammaturgo Arthur Miller e moglie di Daniel Day-Lewis, ha adattato il suo romanzo sulla vita di Pippa Lee. Pippa Lee è una donna di 50 anni che dopo essere stata lasciata da suo marito per una donna più giovane diventa una metanfetamina dipendente e entra in uno stato di esaurimento nervoso difficile da curare.

Winona Ryder sarà la donna giovane per cui io marito lascia Pippa Lee mentre la stessa Lee sarà intepretata da Robin Wright Penn. A Monica Bellucci sarà affidato il ruolo della sua prima moglie, mentre Reeves sarà l'amante della protagonista. La Gyllenhaal appare in flashback nei panni della madre della Lee, e la Moore sarà una scrittrice lesbica.

Le riprese del film dovrebbero iniziare ad Aprile 2008 in Connecticut e sarà prodotto dalla Elevation Filmworks.