You Can Thank Me Later
1998, 101 minutes, Rated MA
The grown Cooperberg siblings reluctantly assemble at the hospital to await the results of their father's surgery: Edward (Mark Blum - Shattered Glass, Crocodile Dundee), a theatre producer and renowned womanizer, Eli (Ted Levine -Memoirs of a Geisha, The Fast and the Furious), the self-proclaimed poet who works in the family business and Susan (Golden Globe Nominee Amanda Plummer - My Life Without Me, The Fisher King), the artist who still lives off her parents while justifying it as a "grant". Holding them all together while simultaneously pushing them apart is their mother, Shirley (Academy Award Winner Ellen Burstyn - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Requiem for a Dream), who can't help but criticize her children's chosen paths in life, reducing them to a state of infancy.
Wrought with divorce, infidelity and sexual confusion, the characters spiral out of control, to soon realize that it is only by opening old wounds from the past that each one can face the future. With an outstanding supporting cast that includes Academy Award Nominees Mary McDonnell (Dances With Wolves, Passion Fish) and Genevieve Bujold (Dead Ringers, Jericho Mansions), as an omnipresent nun, plus crazy wives and ex-wives, an existentialist TV repairman, sexy nurses and other interesting characters, You Can Thank Me Later delivers situations that may ring all too familiar and a day that you'll never forget.
- Director:
- Shimon Dotan [2],
- Starring:
- Ellen Burstyn [25], Genevieve Bujold [16], Ted Levine [49], Amanda Plummer [15], Mary McDonnell [45],
- Screen Formats:
- Full Frame 1.33:1
- Language and Sound:
- English Dolby Digital Stereo
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