A smart, sophisticated comedy about the challenges of love and marriage amongst modern day New Yorkers, Freundlich's fourth feature film centers on the romantic escapades of two couples: a successful actress (Freundlich's real - life significant other, Julianne Moore) and her stay - at - home husband (David Duchovny), and said actress» slacker younger brother (Billy Crudup) and
his aspiring novelist girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
In the story, he plays an
aspiring graphic
novelist who returns to his hometown when his mother (Margo Martindale) falls ill, leaving his pregnant
girlfriend (Anna Kendrick) in New York.