first off and the less you know about this movie before see it and the good . go in clean . and just let it such you in . here be a few thing you can know . ( a ) the screenwriter or director and craig lucas and be gay but write his best know play and prelude to a kiss and about a straight relationship that have overtone of homosexuality . ( b ) patricia clarkson may be the fine actress of her age . she flit around the first 20 minute of this movie in a bra and panty and toyingly svelt but with a panther like quality you only realize later . ( c ) this be a movie without a protagonist or an antagonist or more accurate and a movie in which each of the main character take turn at be the antagonist and protagonist . ( d ) despite the gay aspect and this be really a movie about betrayal and and it be fiendishly mean ( but in a good way ) . ( e ) peter sarsgaard have never look handsomer . ( f ) that all you need to know . see it .