Every dad should get drunk and make a pass at his son's girlfriends. Any sons not strong enough to laugh it off should be sterilized and removed from the gene pool, or euthanized if they prefer that alternative. Needless to say, Ethan Hawke should be sterilized even if he pretends that dad's action doesn't bother him, because we know better. DVD info from Amazon . Man, this script is bad.
Every character is one-dimensional.
Julianne Moore, so talented and so wasted here, is left with the thankless job of portraying the sister who is hostile and abusive all the time, for no discernible reason. Noah Wyle is a wounded and sensitive superwuss in his Ethan Hawke impersonation. Roy Scheider is glowering and aloof as the father who seems to have fingerprinted them all with his emotional adolescence. Some other characters were pretty much ignored completely. Only Blythe Danner, as the mom, manages to escape with a semblance of humanity, probably owing more to Danner's rounded interpretation than to the lines she was handed.