Margot at the Wedding (2008, DVD)

This is one of those films in which each character we meet is more crazy than the one previously introduced. The basic story is a reconciliation between two sisters facilitated by the upcoming nuptials of the younger sister, Pauline (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh). Nicole Kidman plays the highly neurotic, highly successful elder sister, Margot. Margot is also (or primarily perhaps) using the wedding's proximity to her lover's residence to get away from her husband (John Turturro). She escapes to the wedding with her son, Claude, with whom she has a highly charged, abnormally "honest" relationship. Jack Black, as Pauline's fiancee, Malcolm, provides some much needed comic relief. In fact, he is the only character who doesn't take himself so seriously as to believe anything he is saying or thinking really matters to anyone else. When all is said and done this is about finding and compromising for love, between siblings, between parent and child and, yes, between consenting adults. But despite fine acting by the major players and certainly some appealing actors, one never feels deeply attached to any of them.