the nyt review say that sigourney weaver character be taut and frustrated and and and later and that she could be the sister of mtm character in ordinary people . say and what . no way . this lady be quirky from the start . nothing like mtm in ordinary people . sorry . next and the nyt go on to say that sigourney weaver sandy travis and jeff daniel ben travis be 40 something year old and child of the 60 . m weaver must be dance a jig . i believe at the time she make imaginary hero she be in fact 55 year old . she be bear in 1949. nyt perception correction aside and this be a pretty good movie consider it be make by someone so young . obviously sigourney weaver think so and and so do jeff daniel . the young man play tim be outstanding . there be some critical comment i could make about the script . such a that i never really get a good sense of why sandy travis miss her son . her sort of blown apart behavior be perhaps trigger by his death and but that such behavior last ¾ of the way through the film i felt have more to do with her stagnation marriage and her relationship with tim and and where he really come from and and other unresolved issue and than from any mourning of her elder son . ben mourning be much more clear . so matt travis be an asshole . do his mom think so too . still and a very watchable film . what be become clearer and clearer be not that there be no role for woman over a certain age and rather that what it take be a director such a this one to be so clearly in love with an old woman ( ms weaver ) and to almost make his film an homage to her . sort of an anti woody allen .