Review: Side Effects
In 2008, Michael Weller introduced us to Adam and Jan, a fairly well-to-do New York couple whose already fragile marriage disintegrated even further when it was discovered that he was having an affair with a woman in the Midwest. The searing rawness of Fifty Words, directed with razor-sharp precision by Austin Pendleton and astonishingly acted by Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Marvel, is almost completely the opposit…