Starting out in the evening

I have this special place for the American Jewish scholars and writers. They would give you the best piece of literary work, may it be Charlie Kaufman, Spielburg or here in this case Andrew Wagner... this is so far the best screenplay, and it gets its due nomination to some ivy league critic award as well.

The four corners of the plot, these four characters are so well balanced and keep the things tight. A less understood writer in his last years, his daughter on the wrong side of 30s who has her own issues with her relationship with a guy who carried some priorities of his own ahead of anything and last the catalyst of change in this story, the university student completing her thesis about this writer who comes and "shake things up".
There are some good conversation when this student probes in to bring out the writer's take on her understanding of his novels. The film is replete with dinner table quotable and some deep enough to be just quotes..

"..To sit across a table and talk to someone you love is itself a complex engagement...to go to bed with someone and carry the conversation to the realm of body, a realm of insecurity and vulnerability and fear as well as pleasure, is fraught with the sad evidence of how difficult it is to understand a person and to make yourself understood."

When she say.." I find few men of my age interesting. They are like chewing gums, few minutes of flavor followed by a bland repetition..."