Movie Description:
A family weekend is fraught with emotional landmines for mercurial and sensitive Lynnas she arrives at her parents` Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan, accompanied by her three younger children. Lynn`s hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot lobs verbal grenades at his motherand her relatives while daughter Alice, a fragile young woman, fights valiantly to keep her longtime demons under control. The weekend quickly unravels as Lynn demands to be heard by her aloof,disdainful mother, ailing, distant father and ever-judgmental sisters, but most especially by her ex-husband Paul and his hot-tempered secondwife Patty. Confronted, often- times hilariously, with the deeply painful, half-buried truths that have given rise to the family`s primal web of resentments and recriminations, Lynn struggles to maintain her equilibrium as her best attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off course.