Tom Dolby, Tom Williams: Last Weekend (2014)

This is just a sketchy opening to my full review due to "hold review" restrictions for this movie about a rich family whose matriarch (played by Patricia Clarkson) has decided to sell their glamorous prewar Lake Tahoe resort house, though she's not saying so so the adult children assembled with her and her husband for Labor Day Weekend, with boyfriends and girlfriends, will have a "summer weekend like all the others." Tom Dolby, son of the late sound/noise reduction system inventor, may have grown up in wealthy circumstances like this. There's gayness -- the youngest son and his new boyfriend get the nicest cuddles, status anxiety -- the older son has just lost his job through a major stock trading fuckup, and there's a lot about real estate, money and status. It's all a little too bland and easily resolved (no Tracy Letts or Eugene O'Neill action here), but I give it credit for at least making one think of Virginia Woolf and Henry James.

The 2 May screening is the movie's world premiere.