Young Dakota Fanning portrays Pita as startlingly smart and touchingly thoughtful, but never the brat she might have been, given her privileged upbringing. (Her American mother is played by Radha Mitchell, her Mexican father by Marc Anthony.) Pita is such a good kid that she wants to floss.

WSJ: Denzel Does Malice

At dinner with friends in a Greenwich Village restaurant, two playwrights, one tragic (Larry Pine), one comic (Wallace Shawn), offer alternate versions of the same story: Melinda (Radha Mitchell), a distraught young woman, shows up, unannounced, at a dinner party held by old friends and intrudes upon their lives.

NEWYORKER: Melinda and Melinda