Kevin Spacey is an unlikable guy in this movie. That is not exactly news. He has made a successful and entertaining career of playing unlikable characters. This time he is psychiatrist to the stars whose wife has commited suicide--which he take sa s the ultimate crushing blow. He chain smokes pot and drinks from dawn to dusk. The only friend he even attempts to communicate with on a real level is his pot dealer, who has absolutely no interest in what he has to say about why he needs an ounce of marijuana a day. he is on a collision course with self-destruction (even succesfully manipulating his way out of an intervention) when he is forced to take on a teen whose mother committed suicide.
She is a studious girl, who calls him out on his substance abuse, and is so miserable herself that she spares no times excusing his behavior. Together they manage to claw out a place within their grief to be able to live, and maybe have found a path on which they could move forward. It is a painful but hopeful, and very real feeling movie.
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