Germany released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), German ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Commentary, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Thomson plays a messed-up, un-self-conscious and desperate denizen of New York, which should come as no surprise if you've seen Sue, or Fast Food, Fast Women. She's a mom who lost her son, Clarence, about a decade before, when some snarling bad guys shot her husband and child-welfare authorities deemed her unfit to care for him. When the movie opens we find Thomson drifting around the city, occasionally meeting up with her son for a little illicit parenting, finding and losing jobs, and falling into some perverse, low-rent Eyes Wide Shut scenes (don't ask). Eventually finding a job at a supermarket, Thomson meets a slightly retarded young man (David Wike), and later his father (Arthur Storch), a dying rich guy who secretly offers her money to marry his son. Lots of crazy stuff then follows. Thomson gets a night gig at a peep show; parties in Miami with a retired gangster; smuggles drugs out of Lebanon; sees a shrink; and moves in with a depressed ex-Marine... SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Berlin International Film Festival, ...Bridget
