Very idiosyncratic, subversive even, Hollywood movie with a dark heart and a high profile cast including the likes of Glenn Close and Dermot Mulroney, the Safety of Objects offers up a tale of how disconnected the modern world is, the Earth is smaller than ever yet people are more afraid of communication and intimacy.

The movie follows the lives of four neighbouring dysfunctional families all living in a well to do suburb with much of the action taking place over four days as each of the characters attempt to overcome their dependence on “The Safety of Objects”. There is the Gold family headed by Glenn Close as Esther, struggling to cope with looking after a son in a coma and avoiding spending time with the rest of the family; the Trains where lawyer Jim (Dermot Mulroney) would rather be involved with his work than his wife Susan (Moira Kelly)  and with a son who has developed an uncomfortable fixation on  his sister’s Barbie dolls; The Jennings single mum Jeanette (Patricia Clarkson) struggling with her two kids Sam and Rayanne and then there are the Christianson household with wife Helen (Mary Kay Place) seriously bored with her husband.

The movie very cleverly takes some of the staples of soap opera and subverts them into a treatise on our post modern anything goes world. An entertaining wordy movie that leaves you thinking.

EXTRAS: There are features on the characters in the story with contributions from the cast and director and there is also the original theatrical trailer.