Thirteen conversations about one thing11/11/2022 ![]() Happy and Beatrice both bring sunshine to those around them, with one even pulling another from the abyss. They continuously double back, using title cards to quote the observation of one character to introduce the next incident in the life of another. The brilliance of the Sprechers' script is more than its concurrent forward reverse time line. Even a horrific accident doesn't make Beatrice down, but a stranger's mistrust changes her outlook dramatically. She sadly begins a new life while he plummets into an uncomprehending spiral.īeatrice (Clea Duvall, "Girl, Interrupted") is a simple housecleaner whose sunny optimism is relied upon by her 'life-owes-me-a-living' coworker Dorie (Tia Texada, "Nurse Betty"). The return of his wallet uncovers his affair with an English professor (Barbara Sukowa, "Rosa Luxembourg") to his wife Patricia (Amy Irving). Walker (John Turturro, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?") is a physics professor reevaluating his life after becoming a victim of random violence. Guilt causes him to keep reopening the wound he received from the accident and the experience causes to empathize with a man accused of murder. Troy (Matthew McConaughey, "Frailty") is a hot shot prosecutor who gets high on putting criminals behind bars, until he becomes the perpetrator of a hit and run. He finds the cheerfulness of Wade 'Happy' Bowman (William Wise, "In the Bedroom") to be a personal affront and bets his senior adjuster buddy Dick (Frankie Faison, "Hannibal") that he can take the smile off of Happy's face, but comes to regret and rectify his venal actions. ![]() Gene English (Alan Arkin, "The Slums of Beverly Hills") is a divorced father of a junkie son, soured on life, who dances to the desires of the bosses upstairs in his insurance firm. ![]() ![]() "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing" may produce the effect desired in its audience by "Pay It Forward" without the sodden preachifying. The Sprecher sisters debuted with a good, if not particularly noteworthy, look at a group of female office workers with "Clockwatchers," but in their sophomore effort deliver a screenplay more ingeniously constructed than "Memento." This melancholy probing of the human condition suggests that while we ultimately are the creators of our own happiness, a sense of responsibility for the rest of the race is its most basic ingredient. ![]()
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