When Parker Posey debuted this film in 1997, along with three others, she quickly became the sweetheart of independent films. No one else had the gift for adapting such a stiffly written, complexly neurotic character to the screen with such finesse that she made the whole movie believable. Written and directed by Mark Water, the script is based in a Broadway Play where young Marty (Josh Hamilton) comes home from college for Thanksgiving with his fiancé (Tori Spelling) in tow. …
