Edgy black comedy from Nicole Holofcener about a mother Brenda Blethyn and her three daughters, two grown (one an actress, one a married mom) Emily Mortimer and Katherine Keener, and one an adopted black 8-year old. It has funny moments, but the people are really not nice or attractive as people. Liposuction and body/looks concern is a primary theme here as the mother experiences the fear of aging and being unattractive. The married neurotic daughter is a real bitch, whose philandering husband is sleeping with her best friend. She makes and can’t sell art before she takes a job at a one-hour photo place working for a 17-year old boy. You know where that’s going. The actress daughter is obsessed with her lack of sex appeal and the lack of love in her life. Some great scenes between very unattractive people; Dermot Mulroney has an amazing moment of analyzing Mortimer at her own request. Very well acted all around, but not a lot of fun to watch. Issues of weight with the youngest daughter, the issue of her identity as black and Jewish. (April 27, 2003:. I’m still thinking about this one, for all its distasteful qualities, so I think that’s a sign that it really should be seen!)