The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

2009

Pippa Lee feels dislocated when she and her husband Herb move from Manhattan to a suburban retirement community. He’s older than she, they have two children who are young adults, and the daughter hardly speaks to Pippa. Pippa tells us about her life, in long flashbacks, starting with her birth to a mom who was a social dynamo and addicted to pills. As a teen, Pippa moves out and lives a hippie life until meeting […]

The Ten (2007)

2007

Quirky inter-related stories. Standing by two tablets, Jeff promises to introduce ten short stories, each about one of the commandments. A man survives a fall from a plane and his fiancée marries someone else before falling in love with a marionette; a surgeon causes the death of a patient and in prison tries to choose his mate; a woman (Gretchen Mol) has an an affair with Jesus in Mexico and later confronts her husband on […]