This movie feels a little over the top in terms of what can go wrong actually going wrong--when Pippa's boyfriend's wife commits suicide at the luncheon table, my thought was "Is this really necessary?" then I found out this is based on a memoir, and therefore, apparently, it was necessary, because it did happen.
Pippa is the product of yet another dysfunctional family, worsened perhaps by prescription substance abuse, the 1960's and the Vietnam War. She leaves home as a teenager, and gets rapidly involved in her own drug addled lifestyle, and wanders form here to there until she meets her future husband, a man 30+ years her senior.
The movie is told from two time points, the first is her life as a teenager forward, and then from the present, which is when she and her husband move into an old age community, where she is markedly younger than everyone else. It is a wild ride, but an intersting one, with plenty of life lessons, and plenty to think about.
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