We saw the trailer for this movie a few times before it actually arrived at the theatre as part of the Cinematheque series. Annette Bening plays a 50+ woman who is raising her teenaged son, Jamie, on her own. She enlists the help of two women to help her son become a better man. One of the women rents a room in her house; she also rents a room to an enlightened young man who has his own opinions about women.

The view of the women is seen quite differently between the mother, the young woman in her early twenties,  and the teenager who is Jamie’s best friend.