Mary (Selma Blair) stares sullenly out the window as her husband Mark (Joshua Close) talks to the office on his mobile as he drives on to their magnificent vacation "cottage" in a remote, forested area. Their eight-year old, Brendan, seems remarkably oblivious to the tension between his parents. Emotions are fraught in this upper-class household and intimacy thwarted. A tragedy has just ...

 The protagonist (Jordan Gelber) is a doughy, middle-aged man-child living with his parents and his action figures in this darkly perceptive suburban comedy from the director of Welcome to the Dollhouse. Todd Solondz is masterful