Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Sam Robards, Scott Bakula, John Cho, Ara Celi, Allison Janney, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper

A dark slide into a man's midlife crisis (Oscar-winning Kevin Spacey) includes him pitifully peddling fast food. There are also tense family dinners, at one of which the man finally shows his agency by throwing a plate of asparagus across the room. Plenty of sex and matters of appetite for every character, set in deliberate opposition to the picture-perfect surface of their lives.

(by Rebecca L. Epstein)