Little Fires Everywhere (2020)

Reese Witherspoon - amusing that there's a book club. Celeste Ng wrote the novel. Kerry Washington (Ray, The Last King of Scotland. Django Unchained), who looks constantly wound up, and is an edgy character, so annoying, I was glad when it finished not to have to look at her any more. (Both the character and the performance are annoying, just to be clear.) With Lexi Underwood (her daughter), Megan Stott (Reese's gay daughter), Joshua Jackson (husband), Jade Pettyjohn, Jordan Elsass & Gavin Lewis (other kids), Rosemarie DeWitt, Huang Lu, AnnaSophia Robb (young Elena).

My initial reaction was 'Not one of those ones where we have to wait seventeen hours to find out who burned the house down...' Unfortunately, and predictably, it was - the ending is preposterous - but we didn't really care who did it by the end. Ultimately, each mother is as bad as the other.

Actually the couple who have their baby stolen is also preposterous. I seem to be using that word a lot, recently.

My attention began to wander around the nineteenth montage. There's one decent song, Marvin Gaye 'Piece of Clay'.

The acting is all a bit samey. And it's all very symbolic.

There's a missed interesting storyline here - the town was one of the first against segregation, but later it's revealed that there's hardly any black people there... Why?