Joy is married to an obscene phone caller. Her sister Trish is dating a Zionist; she doesn't know that her ex-husband is being released from prison where he served a sentence for raping two boys in the last movie. There's another sister who's now a successful screenwriter. Trish's son is preparing for his bar mitzvah. Her other son is studying anthropology at a fictional university in Oregon.
So one kid is studying to become a man, the other majors in the study of man and their mother and aunt have terrible, terrible luck with men. I assume this has some meaning. The third sister sides with Palestinians. She has a large photo on her wall of a Palestinian boy facing down an Israeli tank.
I see it categorized as a comedy/drama and I understand what they mean. There were a couple of gags in it.
I was surprised to see Paul Reubens and Charlotte Rampling in small roles.
Available on the Criterion Channel if nowhere else.
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