Crazy Kind of Love

After Augusta Iris kicks Gordie, her artist husband, out of the house over his extramarital affair, she spends weeks in bed, barely speaking, ate up by means of grief and repressed anger. When her stoned-out teenage son, Henry, a high-school dropout who mows lawns, learns that his father is living with a lover, he builds a bizarre sculpture in Dad’s studio to training session his rage. Meanwhile, Henry’s asocial brother, Mathew, a Harvard PH.D. Candidate in chemistry, returns domestic to comfort Mom. A recluse and health-food fanatic, Mathew hides in his room to keep away from Bette Mack, Henry’s feisty stay-in female friend, who attempts to restore the comatose circle of relatives with peppy recommendation and sassy critiques. tt1946310