While the latter has led a mostly happy life with a husband and kids, Nina has drifted from one job and boyfriend to the next, meaning she isn't sure she can commit to her latest beau, Luc (EBON MOSS-BACHRACH). Thus, and thinking that her mom is experiencing the same sort of regret about life choices just like her, Nina tries to figure out if the people her mom mentioned are real, and if they are, how and when they fit into her life.
Fifty years ago, Ann Grant (CLAIRE DANES) is a young woman arriving at the coastal New England home of her best friend, Lila Wittenborn (MAMIE GUMMER). The latter is about to get married, with Ann to serve as her bridesmaid. That's all while Lila's high society mother Mrs. Wittenborn (GLENN CLOSE), focuses on the seating assignments for the reception, and Lila's boozing playboy type brother Buddy (HUGH DANCY) thinks she's marrying the wrong man. That's because he, Lila and eventually Ann, are all smitten with Harris Arden (PATRICK WILSON), the son of the family's former housekeeper who's grown up into a dashing doctor.
As the family dynamics play out over the next few days leading up to the wedding, Ann finds herself worried about Buddy but drawn to Harris, events that lead to those memories on her death bed so many years later, wondering about the decisions she made so long ago.
A woman announces she's two months pregnant by her boyfriend, while a man's bare butt and a woman in her underwear are seen from a distance at night as they leap off a cliff into the water below. Other kissing and cleavage are present, while it's heavily implied that a man is either gay or bisexual.
Various bad attitudes are present, as is tense family material (including that of family deaths). Thematic elements include that, as well as a character being an alcoholic, while other characters drink and/or smoke. A person is accidentally struck by a vehicle at night (with bloody wounds and an eventual, unseen death), while a scene depicts a presumed drowning that turns out not to be the case.
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(2007) (Vanessa Redgrave, Claire Danes) (PG-13)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Heavy
Mild
Moderate
Mild
None
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
Minor
None
None
Heavy
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Heavy
Moderate
Heavy
Moderate
Moderate
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Reviewed June 18, 2007 / Posted June 29, 2007
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