Release Date
October 5, 2005 (LA/NY)
DVD Release Date
March 21, 2006 (Buy on Amazon)
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Running Time
88 minutes
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic dialogue and language
Bernard Berkman, the patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn family, claims to have been a famous novelist but is now reduced to teaching. His wife Joan discovers a literary talent of her own, and it breaks up the family, leaving the two teenage sons, Walt, 16, and Frank, 12, divided between their parents. The wife starts an affair with her younger son's tennis coach, while the husband starts sleeping with a student whom his elder son... Full synopsis »
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