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Posted
Monday, June 29, 2009 9:55 AM
| By
Dahlia Lithwick
As Dana’s already pointed out,
it’s not a perfect movie. Too many cartoon characters bouncing around
cartoonishly (although Allison Janey, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Josh
Hamilton are such brilliantly wrought caricatures, it hardly matters).
But as soon as we meet Melanie Lynskey, playing hip Montreal supermom,
Munch Garnett, we know something different is coming.
Munch can’t conceive, and has thus adopted a Victorian houseful of
impossibly tidy, polite children with perfect pitch. But the instant
she finds herself in a room with the explosively pregnant Verona
(played by Maya Rudolph), it’s clear Munch is being devoured by
something. And later that evening, after a good amount of wine, Munch
takes to the stage at an open mic night to perform the saddest, least
sexy pole dance ever witnessed, all jerking head and hollow eyes. Her
husband, Tom, played by Chris Messina, explains that ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)