Based on 1990 Elinor Lipman novel (not a great title), adapted by the director and Alice Arlen and Victor Levin about recently separated woman who is approached by chat show success birth mother Bette Midler. Hunt looks really thin and unattractive - I find her mannerisms and manner the same in everything - but here she's tempered by an on-good-form Colin Firth, whose dialogue sounds like it's been tailored for him specifically (he's English, thankfully).
Matthew Broderick is her feckless ex, Ben Shenkman her brother and John Benjamin Hickey (who we must recognise from The Big C and The Good Wife) is Bette's slightly oddly behaving manager (looks like his part was bigger but cut down?) Salman Rushdie, quite oddly, is a paediatrician.
We couldn't understand it at all when she has sex in a car with the ex.
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