Plot: Very quickly we meet Simon (Urbaniak) the stoic garbageman, and after a brief view into his life we realize he has issues. Shortly thereafter we meet Henry (Ryan) who has an obvious eccentric author thespian bent to him. Turns out Henry needs a place to live and Simon, his mother and sister are renting a basement room. A match made in heaven.

This becomes more interesting when the erudite Henry notices that Simon can write some real cutting edge poetry and encourages him to do just that. For the first time in his life Simon gets a chance to express himself and all indications are he might just become successful at it.

In the meantime, Simon’s family is trying to live their lives. Mother has a pill habit that comes from treatment for depression. Sister has a need to think she’s still an attractive young girl. I think this is a very interesting part of the movie because Posey is in fact not a young girl at this time but does sometimes get cast as one.

There is also Henry’s work in progress. His confession. You wonder if we’ll ever get a chance to hear it. That’s where the movie gets more interesting, because eventually we do, resulting in a really twisting bend to the movie.

The Good: Aside from Parker Posey the folks are hardly experienced movie actors, but let me be the first to say that knowledge comes from bios, only not the performances in this film. There was some great casting in the movie. Posey’s part is minor by the way but since I think she’s so great I keep typing her name anyway.

The story has so many of the things I like, gritty characters in a really well done story that I can’t just predict in 15 minutes. Throw in multiple levels of moral examinations and I’m yours forever. It’s stories like this that keep me watching movies.

The Bad: I don’t know that there was much bad with this film. I can’t say it ever got too preachy. Maybe I didn’t buy the success story 100% but it’s not difficult at all to think ordinary talented people can become famous. Look at Milli Vanilli.

Bottom Line: A great independent film.

Rating: Four big cocktails