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  • Actors: Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Mary Kay Place, Patricia Clarkson, Jessica Campbell
  • Directors: Rose Troche
  • Writers: Rose Troche, A.M. Homes
  • Producers: Angus Finney, Christine Vachon, Colin Brunton, Dorothy Berwin, Eric Robison
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Entertainment in Video
  • VHS Release Date: 16 Feb 2004
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008VCUF
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,559 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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In a modest house in suburban America, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) lies in his bedroom in a coma, nursed by his mother, Esther (Glenn Close). Esther dutifully tends Paul day and night and in doing so has distanced herself from her husband, Howard (Robert Klein) and teenage daughter, Julie (Jessica Campbell). A stone’s throw away, Annette Jennings (Patricia Clarkson) is in the midst of a messy divorce, all the while trying to keep herself and her two children functioning normally, on a swiftly dwindling budget. Meanwhile, after years dedicating to his job, Jim Train (Dermot Mulroney) begins to realize that his family, headed by his efficient wife, Susan (Moira Kelly), functions perfectly well without him. Their son, Jake (Alex House) has problems of his own as he finds it increasingly hard to conceal his burgeoning romantic relationship with Tani, his little sister’s twelve-inch plastic doll. Beneath her cheerful façade, Helen Christianson (Mary Kay Place), bored by her husband and the banalities of her life, secretly begins looking for something or someone to bring her back to life.

All of them go about their lives surrounded by the possessions that they hold dear. But over the course of four days, the intertwined world of the Golds, the Trains, the Christiansons and the Jennings will collide with the past.

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The trials of life for four families: a boy is nursed by his mother, a woman is going through a divorce, a working man realises that his family can do without him and a woman grows bored of married life.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Surreally real., 21 Mar 2004
By Mr. P. Tanner "paultanner2" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Safety Of Objects [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
This movie is incredibly real and yet surreal at the same time. The humour is akin to that in American Beauty with the story being about real hopes and dreams and how people deal with them either being lost or just not happening.

We get a glimpse into the functinality of disfunctional middle America, and what a trip it is. There is an underlying sadness about this film that is so real it is frightening, we follow several families through trial and tribulation and it is terrific.

Every performance is first rate and everything is plausable due to the surreal aspects, including the talking doll-girlfriend which would ordinarilly be ludicrous.

The soundtrack is excellent and very enjoyable, some well known songs nicely mixed with some less well know, but appropriate, tracks.

If you don't like dark, morose humour then steer clear this is not a light comedy, but, if you you like dark real issues then I would snap this up at once.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended, 22 Aug 2005
By Ms. R. Graham "www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/lgbt" (West Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Safety Of Objects [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
Although I read (and enjoyed) the book years ago, my reason for watching this film was the curiosity of seeing Rose Troche's direction - I've been a fan of her work with Go Fish and, more recently, The L Word. And I was very impressed - well scripted, well acted and excellently directed. Even the opening credits hooked me!
A tragic tale interwoven with humour, this film is a must-see.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A BOOK ADAPTATION GONE AWRY..., 1 Jul 2004
By Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Safety Of Objects [DVD] [2003] (DVD)
With a superlative ensemble cast giving note worthy performances, I expected this movie to be better than it actually was. Unfortunately, it was a sterile production, as none of the characters really grab the viewer emotionally. The normal rules of engagement seem to be lacking, leaving the viewer with the sense of having seen a shell of what was potentially a good film. Instead, the viewer gets a film with a few good hurrahs amidst a motley reel of celluloid. It is an ambitious film that does not see its ambitions realized.

Adapted from a book of short stories by A. H. Holmes, the film attempts to weave these short stories into a collective, cohesive narrative. It is a strained effort, at best. It gives an ostensible slice of suburban angst through the stories of four middle class families, neighbors in a suburban community. All have some connection to a car accident that severely injured the son of one of these families, causing him to remain in a vegetative state.

The film plods along, unraveling the accident in tortuous fashion as it takes the viewer to the final denouement. Some of the characters behave inexplicably without rhyme or reason as to why they would behave in such a fashion, leaving the viewer to wonder why. While the reasons may be of interest, there is not a clue as to such. It may simply be that the author's interrelated short stories simply did not adapt well to film, despite best efforts to make it into a cohesive entity.

Yet, a pre-pubescent boy talks to his sister's Barbie doll, believing that they have some kind of relationship, and he believes that Barbie talks back to him. A man whose marital relationship is on the brink of disaster leaves his wife and family at a critical juncture in order to help a neighbor try to win an SUV contest at a local mall. Why they act in this fashion is the question. The answer is entirely shrouded and obscure, so that the viewer is left puzzled and grasping at straws, in the end not really caring at all why.

So, despite excellent performances by the cast, the film is torpid at best, staying afloat simply because of the efforts of the cast not to go down with a sinking ship. The stories of the characters themselves simply cannot sustain the film sufficiently, despite the valiant efforts of the cast and the director. It is a somewhat depressing film that is unable to break away from its own inherent torpor. Still, it is worth a rental, if only for the fine performances of this stellar ensemble cast.

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