![]() Olivia, the stoned driver, goes to jail and straightens up for a while after she gets out, it seems she’ll keep Nick in line, but he loves getting high too much. At least Carmen produces a child, while Alice has made the mistake of competing with their father Horace, an egocentric, domineering painter. His sister Carmen, whose marriage to Matt sets the plot in motion (and doesn’t last long), is a political activist, marginally more acceptable to their deeply conventional mother Loretta than sibling Alice, an artist and lesbian who suffers an agonizing passion for Matt’s sexually conflicted sister Maude. ![]() ![]() Nick’s growing addiction is one of the subplots in a tender but often somber story centered on his family. ![]() It’s no accident that the driver of the car that kills 10-year-old Casey Redman is the extremely stoned girlfriend of Nick, brother of the bride. From a 1983 wedding through Election Day 2008, Anshaw ( Lucky in the Corner, 2002, etc.) tracks a Chicago family unsettled by a fatal accident. ![]()
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