Although the writer-director incidentally lets slip a glimpse of her own movie-family background, as when Nora emerges from a revival house declaring that Humphrey Bogart reminds her of her father, even this majestic backstory remains merely a wink: both Nora Wilder and Zoe Cassavetes labor under the burden of the unexamined life.

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Joan is now afraid to sleep in her house on her own and either has one of her daughters stay over, or sleeps at a nearby family member's home.

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