Build a movie plot around this: Why does Jay go to Claire's apartment in the first place? "Take care" of her
Claire Barney (Samantha Morton) is a mild-mannered police parking attendant who lives in a small house with her invalid mother (Teri Garr) who is recovering from a recent stroke. She patrols the L.A. streets and stumbles into an old boyfriend, who introduces Claire to his wife and ill-behaved daughter. Reeling from the chance encounter, she steps out onto the street and is hit by a passing vehicle. Claire is forced to stay at home with a broken right ankle, wrist and a broken left arm and feeling helpless to get around. Her mother, whom gets arround the house in a wheelchair with her right side almost completely inmobile and can only speak with grunts and hummings, implies to Claire to find a man to marry and settle down. A box containing a minature Christmas tree arrives and both are now seemingly happy to decorate the tree and the house with Christmas lights.Returning to work three weeks later, Claire attracts the attention of another parking attendant, an extremely blunt and aggressive man, named Jay (Jason Patric), whose home life consists mainly of entertaining himself using the services of a webcam porn site and phone service. Claire witnesses him fighting with her best friend Wilma (Illeana Douglas), a neighbor working for a delivery service who parks on the curb to unload her consignment, but does not bring it up with either party. Claire develops a crush on Jay, but every time they settle down for a one-to-one conversation, Jay eventually becomes angry and pushe when he takes issue with some entirely innocuous comment Claire makes and storms off in disgust. Nonetheless, he keeps coming back for more.One night, Jay comes to Claire and her mother's house for dinner where they have a pleasant and uneventfull evening of dinner and talk. Another night later, Jay shows up with take-out Chinese food for Claire and her mother. Claire's mother seems happy to see her semi-dating again and hopes that Claire will get married and settle down.A few days later, Claire prepares to join Jay at the meter squad's...