Chi Mangia Solo
On the night before selling their childhood home, an estranged brother and sister reconnect while cooking their late mother’s favorite recipe. They find their grief simmering just beneath the surface.
On the night before selling their childhood home, an estranged brother and sister reconnect while cooking their late mother’s favorite recipe. They find their grief simmering just beneath the surface.
Victoria Pedretti
INVA
Philip Ettinger
UMBERTO
On the night before selling their childhood home, an estranged brother and sister reconnect while cooking their late mother’s favorite recipe. They find their grief simmering just beneath the surface.
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.