basically and a dentist husband wife team and their 3 daughter deal with infidelity . the premise be interesting and the acting be good and and the music and although sometimes abrupt and without direction and be pretty cool . the problem be the plot . the husband dentist drop his wife off backstage at an opera before the show ( she have a minor role ) and then walk back in to give her something and but see her with another man . the rest of the movie deal with his angst about this episode and his visual hallucination and a macho alter ego ( denis leary and a former patient of his ) and his fear in confront his wife l he will have to do something about it . i would not tell you the end and but let me say that the film go nowhere and the end be like a sputter whimper . the motivation of the character be miss represent why be she cheat on him . he a dentist and decent look and good father . the film doesn not say . who she do it with . don not expect any answer on that either . why do he want to keep the marriage go in spite of all this . who know . what purpose do all the kid vomit serve . where be this film go . good performance by campbell scott and hope davis ( and denis leary a comic relief ) be completely waste by this stilted nonsense which doesn not know if it want to be american beauty or a family film . a root canal be more interesting . avoid it .