Movies

October, 1997

It's thanksgiving in Maine, and writer-director Bart Freundlich brings mom, dad, brothers, sisters and significant others home for the holiday in The Myth of Fingerprints (Sony Classics). Practically everyone on the premises makes love a lot, but there's little joy in the air in this absorbing drama about a handsome, upscale, screwed-up family that looks unnervingly average. Blythe Danner and Roy Scheider play the parents, gentle Lena and remote, hypercritical Hal. Julianne Moore, Laurel Holloma...