Summer, 1976
Auburn (Pulitzer Prize winner for Proof) has a knack for writing complex female characters. That knack hasn't failed him in "Summer, 1976." Diane, the lustrous Laura Linney, is an aloof artist/university professor who meets Alice, the warm and magnetic Jessica Hecht, a stay-at-home mom, via their very young daughters. Alice's husband, the unseen, but occasionally heard, Doug, an economist on the tenure tr…