Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Director: Don Roos
Writer: Don Roos
Cast: Natalie Portman, Scott Cohen, Lisa Kudrow, Charlie Tahan
Language: English
Theatrical Release Date: November 5, 2009
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Tagline: Love makes everything possible.

Synopsis: Families never turn out quite according to plan, and Emilia Greenleaf (Portman) certainly never imagined herself the shunned stepmother. But after winning Jack (Scott Cohen) away from his wife Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow), she finds herself immersed in the cross-currents of a new hybrid family. Now second wife to her former lover, she's forced to work out new relationships with her unco-operative stepson and his acerbic mother, who is still very much in the boy's life. Shadowing Emilia's every attempt to get to know the stubborn, precocious young William (Charlie Tahan) is the unbearable loss of a baby she and Jack had hoped would cement their new marriage. Ostracized for wrecking Jack's previous life and berated by Carolyn at every opportunity, Emilia increasingly distances herself from Jack, and is in danger of drowning in domestic disappointment. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]