Actually, Derick gets the directing credit, they both wrote and edited it (with Mark Yoshikawa) and Steven wrote the quirky music.
The late 1970s. Alec Baldwin is a successful but unfaithful property developer, his wife Jill Hennessy is a bit of a mess, the kids suffer - Kieran Culkin has joined the army and Rory Culkin is having problems at school and in fancying neighbour Emma Roberts, whose mum Cynthia Nixon is shagging Baldwin, and whose dad Timothy Hutton, suffering from Lyme's disease, is in a horrible funk.
It's quite painful at times, e.g. dance where Baldwin and Nixon are flirt-dancing right in front of Hennessy; then Culkin elder confronts him. Seems quite honest and is loosely autobiographical, the Martinis having been influenced by a film-loving grandfather (the film is dedicated to him) who introduced them to Truffaut, Fellini and Leone. Unfortunately their careers didn't really seem to go anywhere.
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