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So, if a character in a movie is shown reading a book by Sarah Vowell, and then later Sarah Vowell shows up in the character's antique furniture store, are we supposed to read the second Vowell as Vowell (she appears in the credits as "Shopper"), or is the real Sarah Vowell inhabiting the same universe as the character being acted by Sarah Vowell?

Another delightfully uncomfortable film from Nicole Holofcener, with perhaps the most affecting performance yet by Catherine Keener as a good person perpetually guilty for not being better. Rebecca Hall plays her perfect foil and continues to show how good acting can be without words. Fine performances too by Oliver Platt and Amanda Peet and Lois Smith (whose face I finally placed before looking her up: she played Adele Stackhouse in True Blood) and, oh, everybody.

Trailers

• Winter's Bone--Daddy has busted bond, and his family stands to lose the house; calling central casting for a bunch of ignorant rednecks!
• Holy Rollers--Jesse Eisenberg as a Hasidic drug mule. No, really!
• Touching Home--One of three sports movies opening in New York today that I want to see (never mind a lukewarm review for this one).
• Get Low--Oh, hell, yeah: Robert Duvall as an old coot who wants his funeral while he's still around, Bill Murray as the undertaker to accommodate him.