Released by Miramax Films

Credits:
Director: Willard Carroll
Producers: Willard Carroll, Meg Liberman, Thomas L. Wilhite
Screenplay: Willard Carroll
Executive Producers: Guy East, Paul Feldsher, Nigel Sinclair, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein
Director of Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Production Designer: Missy Stewart
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Costume Designer: April Ferry
Music by: John Barry
Running Time: 121 minutes

Cast:

Meredith: Gillian Anderson

Mildred: Ellen Burstyn

Paul: Sean Connery

Roger: Anthony Edwards

Joan: Angelina Jolie

Mark: Jay Mohr

Keenan: Ryan Phillippe

Hugh: Dennis Quaid

Hannah: Gena Rowlands

Trent: Jon Stewart

Gracie: Madeleine Stowe

Genre:

Drama / Romance / Comedy

Synopsis:

Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about an affair of his years ago. Mark is dying of AIDS, and his mother comes to his bedside: they must talk truthfully. Men have scalded Meredith so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit: why is he reluctant? An adulterous couple meet at hotels for evening sex, but she is unwilling for the relationship to grow. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars. By the week's end, their parallel stories converge.

Release Date (USA):

30 December 1998  (limited) / 22 January 1999

Academy Awards:

-

Budget:

$14m

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