Following a sobering family tragedy, the Travises go to pieces. Teenaged son Tim (
Emile Hirsch), the black sheep of the family, walks through his life like it's a bad dream. His father Ben (
Jeff Daniels) begins treating his wife and children like strangers and completely disengages from the world around him, while his mother Sandy (
Sigourney Weaver) takes to smoking pot and letting loose with all the considerable sarcasm she can muster. Meanwhile, she wages a bitter feud with the next-door neighbor over carefully concealed secrets that threaten to tear the family apart.
I swear this movie changed my life. Everything about it-there was not one part that did not shake me to the core.