Every family has troubles and internal drama. It’s very
easy to spot it in other families, but to turn the lens inward and examine your
own circumstances is difficult. We have a tendency to always think of ourselves
as reasonable despite evidence to the contrary. Harder still is to turn a
literal lens onto a family’s problems and conflicts and shape it from paper to
screen into a compelling story that people might learn something from. Edward
Burns has been trying to do that since his independent filmmaking career began
auspiciously more than fifteen years ago during the American renaissance (which
turned out to be the last dying gap) of indie films.
