This week in movies you missed: Two “Deadwood” stars play parents too busy finding themselves to notice their kids in this drama set in 1975.
What You Missed
Teenage Maggie Cantwell (Olivia Harris, pictured right) and her three younger siblings return home from school to find their parents’ suburban living room full of liquor glasses and party detritus — a mess they tidy without comment. Said parents are nowhere to be found.
Mom (Molly Parker, left) eventually arrives while Maggie is attempting to lose her virginity in the garage. Things just get more awkward from there, as Mom swills drink after drink at dinner, banishes the kids upstairs, and flirts with a married neighbor (Jonathan Brooks) as her husband (John Hawkes) looks on.
Meanwhile, upstairs in their attic playroom, the kids build imaginary worlds insulated from the turmoil. Maggie, on the cusp of adulthood, vacillates between her loyalty to her siblings and her urge to escape.
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