Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Looking for love and perceptions are the interconnecting themes in this well-acted, poignant, captivating 2000 Rodrigo Garcia film told in five vignettes: In This Is Dr. Kenner, a forlorn gynecologist (Glenn Close) caring for her elderly mother (Irma St. Paule) meets with a tarot card reading fortune teller (Calista Flockhart) in the hopes changing her bleak romantic future; in Fantasies About Rebecca, a cigarette-smoking homeless woman (Penelope Allen) throws barbs at a 39-year-old bank manager (Holly Hunter) who finds herself suddenly pregnant and contemplating an abortion because of the unsupportive response by her African-American boyfriend (Gregory Hines) of three years; in Someone for Rose, a lonely, novel-writing schoolteacher (Kathy Baker) with a 15-year-old son (Noah Fleiss) flirts with a new neighbor (Danny Woodburn); in Good Night Lilly, Good Night Christine, a gay cancer patient (Valerie Golino) and her lover reminiscence about the past and how they met; and in Love Waits for Kathy, a detective (Amy Brenneman) investigating the suicide of a former acquaintance (Elpidia Carrillo) accepts a date with a medical examiner (Miguel Sandoval) while her free-spirited blind sister (Cameron Diaz) starts a relationship with a new beau (Matt Craven).
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