Julia Louis-Dreyfus is Eva, a divorced mother facing her daughter’s impending departure for college. At a party she meets Marianne, a worldly and collected poet – a woman Eva can aspire to be like – and Albert, a charming soon-to-be empty-nester who is also divorced and shares Eva’s unpretentious world view. She takes on Marianne (Catherine Keener) as a client and begins a relationship with Albert (James Gandolfini in one of his final performances).

It seems that Eva and Albert have found happiness together, but then Eva learns that Marianne is actually Albert’s ex-wife. For weeks Eva had been Marianne’s confidant, listening while her client complained about the very man Eva had fallen for. Eva begins second-guessing her feelings for Albert as this clever, sensitive story plays out.

With her four previous wryly funny and sharply observant feature films, writer and director Nicole Holofcener (PLEASE GIVE, FRIENDS WITH MONEY) has firmly established herself as one of the foremost chroniclers of educated, sophisticated, and supremely articulate contemporary urbanites. As in her past films, Holofcener draws on her own experiences and those of her friends to create an insightful and biting commentary on the challenges of modern life.