please do not let comment from confused viewer stop you from see this amazing film . it be fix . positive . spoiler follow . but nothing that will ruin your enjoyment of the film and i promise . positive . like a number of the people who have offer comment here and i saw a very early preview version of this film and and be leave scratch my head a little bit . i enjoy it and but be a wee bit confuse about how exactly elaine knew so many of robert secret enable her to convince him she be the ghost of robert dead lover . but tonight in new york city i attend the film official premier ( complete with spotlight and movie star . very exciting . ) and some small but very important change have clarify the plot . craig lucas film direct debut be a revelation . he have create a very grow up and intriguing and complex and fascinating story and coaxed spectacular performance out of some of the best actor on the scene today . ( lucas have direct stage production before and do an artful and deeply move job so he not a totally brand new director . ) he have do spectacular work on stage over the year and and now he be begin to apply his genius to film work . i believe be go to see much more amazing work from him . ( he have write some terrific movie in the past such a secret life of dentist but he be relatively new to direct . ) the three lead actor here be amaze . each of them can communicate more without speak than a lot of actor can achieve with hour of dialog . i have love campbell scott ever since longtime companion and and his mature performance here fulfill the promise he show in that film ( also write by lucas ) over a decade ago . peter sarrsgaard veers from sweet to evil and from happy go lucky to seductive and with great ease and create a likable character who do some very unlikable thing like many real and flaw human being . and patricia clarkson be entirely believable throughout the movie . that may seem like a simple thing and but not many actor can consistently carry it off . i believe what she be say and do at every moment . without her steady performance and the movie could have really stumble especially at a point where the viewer have to buy into a slightly implausible situation . she pull it off . robin bartlett have a small role a a wise cracking and cynical nanny and and be quite amuse in it much like her short but funny turn in another of my favorite and postcard from the edge . the die gaul isn not the type of movie that do well in wide release and for a number of reason . it perhaps too much of an art film to be widely view by casual movie fan . ( and that title and while totally appropriate once you see the film and be a little too high brow to do the movie any good . at least the filmmaker have the self deprecate sense to make a couple of joke about that and during the film jeffry say no one will see a movie with that title . but unfortunately and he right . ) so and unless you live in a major city ( or unless it get the oscar attention it richly deserves ) you may not see it in a theater . but thankfully we live in an age when great movie can find an audience on home video and i predict that what will happen here .