When I heard the title in the book of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I wrongly assumed it might be a foreign film, it was certainly an obscure probably not that well known film I wouldn't have heard of without the book, and one I was willing to try too. Basically Maria Coughlin (Waitress actress and director Adrienne Shelly) is a high school dropout, and causes her father Jim (John MacKay) to drop dead from heart failure and mother Jean (Merritt Nelson) to throw her out when she announces to her parents that she is pregnant, her boyfriend dumps her as well, leaving her alone and homeless. With nowhere to go she wanders into her Long Island town hoping to find somewhere to stay, and there she meets educated high school graduate Matthew Slaughter (Insomnia's Martin Donovan), who also has a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't keep any job he finds because of his moodiness, he just lost his job repairing televisions because the company wanted him to cut corners, and he carries a hand grenade in case of an emergency. Matthew volunteers to help Maria any way he can, including letting her stay with him and anything he can do during her pregnancy, but she is highly considering getting an abortion, because of all the hassle a baby would cause, and spending time with each other the two misfits change each other and form an unusual non sexual relationship based on trust, but of course each other's families try to interfere, without success. Also starring The Sopranos' Edie Falco as Peg Coughlin, Gary Sauer as Anthony and In the Company of Men's Matt Malloy as Ed. This is one of those Marmite kind of independent films, you either love it or don't understand it (I doubt anyone will hate it), I found it a really interesting alternative love story with a good tragicomedy element to it, it was funny with it's dark humour, and it definitely unusual, I agree it may not be the most involving story all the way through, but it is a watchable drama. Good!