Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney need to deal with recently widowed father Philip Bosco, with whom they have a difficult relationship, and get him into a nursing home. It's all awfully familiar and not as much fun as her other films for that reason, though does have its moments ("your confused elder.."). And yes, again, it is very autobiographical. And very real.
It's a sly film and beautifully observed (both siblings love looking at passing trees, for example). Tamara likes flawed people because she is one. Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne came on as producer and helped get the financing, and Jim is her husband.
The Jazz Singer was an amusingly inappropriate film to show in the care home; that Richard Widmark clip was Night In The City.
I'm not sure that thing about toes curling inwards being a sign of death is a real thing.
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