Writer and director Rebecca Miller (daughter of playwright Arthur and wife of Daniel Day-Lewis) won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Festival with her second feature, a bittersweet and intent chick-flick compendium adapted from her own short stories.
The first has Sedgwick reflecting bitterly on her situation and recalling the power she once enjoyed when she was the school slut. Further up the social scale, Posey frets she is not the high-flier her ruthless father expected. On the road, a shaken Balk picks up a hitchhiker and discovers there are even worse problems than hers.
Each actress is eloquent without much dialogue and creates a fully realised character, while Miller and cinematographer Ellen Kuras shooting skilfully on DV find a host of interesting ways to illuminate the women's lives and common themes in tightly-focused half-hour segments.