Dec 18th
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits*         
aka: The Other Woman

(US 2009)

A law graduate struggles to cope with the loss of her young baby as well as her obnoxious stepson.
Heavy-going but absorbing soap opera, shot sympathetically in middle class Manhattan, with the star trying to hold back her usual tendency for weepiness.

Written and Directed by: Don Roos, from the novel by Ayelet Waldman.
Producers: Marc Platt, Carol Cuddy.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Scott Cohen, Charlie Tahan, Lisa Kudrow, Lauren Amrbose, Debra Monk, Michael Cristofer.
Photography: Steve Yedlin.
Music: John Swihart.