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Sometimes, a movie is too delicate and beautiful to know too much about it going in.
His emotionally troubled daughter, Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer, the actor’s actual offspring), has just been suspended from school for aggressively pushing a teacher, a punishment reduced from expulsion thanks to the pleadings of Dan’s wife, Sharon (Tara Mallen — Keith’s real wife and Katherine’s real mom), who also teaches at the same school and is struggling to keep the family together and sane. One day, after another one of Dan’s own blowups at work, a curious woman, Rita (Dolly De Leon), beckons him into the semi-abandoned storefront where she and a ragtag group of actors are busy rehearsing a no-budget, amateur production of Romeo and Juliet. Its rhythms shift, as the warm interactions of the troupe contrast sharply with the drab legalese and agonizing emotional accounting required in the world beyond the theater’s walls.
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