Everything Strange and New (2011)

Already bent by the demands of his home life fatherhood a faltering marriage and a submerged mortgage a tradesman struggles to balance his own appetites and expectations with those of a friend in need Everything Strange and New is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain timesWayne is a carpenter no longer young but uneasy with the emotional complexities of adulthood Aimless hours spent with Leo his newlydivorced drinking buddy offer some relief to the heavy gravity at home where his kids run roughshod over his increasingly unstable wife Living between these worlds leaves Wayne feeling like a character in someone elses story Ultimately a violent spasm rouses him from this fevered American dream