Some more focus on the Meyerowitz
women overall would not have gone awry: Candice Bergen makes a brief, memorable appearance as Matthew's mother, while Grace Van Patten gets the most attention as Danny's college - bound daughter, Eliza, an
aspiring filmmaker with an apparent taste for Troma.
The film The first American feature by an African - American lesbian, Dunye's «The Watermelon
Woman» stars its director as a video - store clerk and
aspiring filmmaker working on a project about a long - forgotten black actress of the 1930s.