Directed by: Tamara Jenkins
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman
Student: What is the difference between plot and narrative?
Jon Savage: We're not in therapy now - we're in real life.
Jimmy: Are you married?
Wendy Savage: No... but my boyfriend is.
Wendy Savage: Maybe Dad didn't abandon us. Maybe he just forgot who we were.
Factual error: In Buffalo, Jon Savage drives his Polish girlfriend to the airport. However the problem is that they are driving at approximately 6:30am in broad daylight, in November. In November in Buffalo, the sun would not have even begun to rise at this time, let alone being fully up and out to brighten the day.
Trivia: In the scene when the siblings are checking their father out of hospital, all of the announcements coming over the PA system are sampled from the start of the Queensryche song 'Eyes of a Stranger'.