Edwin McDonough
Marcus and Kate moved to a residential neighborhood in New England. He is a frustrated architect, she is a young housewife who has discontinued her studies. The daily newspaper of a crisis is strictly narrated among the immutable spaces of the bourgeois suburbs: houses, gardens, shopping centers.
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
A televised version of the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's play. A cynical, self-hating, failed actor visits the gruff, earthy daughter of his scheming Irish tenant farmer and passes a soul-baring night of guilt-ridden confessions, tenderness, and absolution.