About a suburban high school teacher who loses his wife and his moorings during a summer break.
High school English teacher Joshua Polansky (Bobby Cannavale, in an exceptionally fine performance) is a sweet guy whose pupils like him: outside the classroom, his world is in shambles. He is married to the free-spirited Elizabeth (June Diane Raphael) whose hobby is making ceramic phalluses to sell at the local flea market and wants to try 'swinging' with another couple; his mother Lenore (Phyllis Somerville) is dying (and does die) from cancer leaving Joshua to care for his severely autistic, hospitalized brother Pete (Keith Nobbs) whose violent behavior results in his being removed from care; his best friend and fellow teacher in Health Education Bart (Josh Charles) attempts to use Joshua's appeal to women by competing for the attention of another fellow English teacher Katherine (Lily Rabe); after Lenore's death Joshua and his sensually frustrated wife Elizabeth must provide a home for Pete who usurps all of Joshua's time with baseball and games; Lenore's home must be fixed up and in trying to do so Joshua falls off the roof and injures his leg and Elizabeth must find a repairman to work the empty house. Joshua stays home on summer break, Elizabeth hires the handsome Alejandro (Daniel Sunjata) to repair Lenore's house - and begins an affair. The emotionally distraught Joshua falls in with a beautiful just-graduated pupil Danielle (Danielle Panabaker) and fears the consequences of having a relationship with a girl so young despite the fact that Elizabeth has now asked for a divorce. Events tumble in Joshua's train wreck of a life and how he confronts all of the endless issues that he faces finds him just plowing through life with a kind of nonchalance, just assuming that things will begin to improve without his urging.
Cheating Notes
4:00 Couple attempts swinging with another couple. Husband bails out, stops the other wife who is about to suck his cock in the living room, and interrupts his wife and the other husband who are already making out and about to fuck in the bedroom.
15:06 Wife goes to a bar out of frustration, unsure what she's doing there. Maybe she wants to get picked up, maybe she doesn't. A guy starts hitting on her (not shown in the youtube copy below). She takes him to her vehicle but when the guy attempts to kiss her, she changes her mind and tells him to go.
45:50 Wife fucks the black repairman. It is a dark and brief pumping scene. And I didn't know it was the wife until she confessed to her husband a little later.
No Nudity.
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