From NetFlix:

Director Michael Bortman also penned the screenplay for this potent drama based on Robert Boswell’s novel. Sparked by a troubled relationship between family patriarch Edward (Peter Coyote) and defiant eldest son Charley (Vincent D’Onofrio), the dysfunctional Warren clan finds themselves beleaguered by conflict and tainted by scandal. But things come to a head when middle son Tom (Peter Berg) returns home after dropping out of college.

Welcome to the life of yet another dysfunctional family in which children tend to fail spectacularly in important ventures, brothers make other brothers’ girl friends pregnant, father’s have affairs, etc.

What we have here is not a pretty scene.

If the film has a theme, it is “why can’t Charley leave home?” or “to what horrible lengths must Charley go in order to leave home?”

At least you get to see known actors early in their careers. During the filming:

• Vincent D’Onofrio (born 1959) was a young looking 32 playing a young man of 26. Of all his roles, this approached most “normal”.
• Noah Wiley (born in 1971) was 20.
• Peter Coyote (born in 1941) was 50. He was, after all, the father.
• Cindy Pickett (born 1947) was 44. She played the mother.
• Juliette Lewis (born 1973) was a mere 18 playing a much younger little sister.
• Peter Berg (born 1964) was 27. He does a great job as the brother Tom in this film, but for me his name just does not ring a bell. He played “Pistol” Pete Deeks in “Smokin’ Aces”.
• Marg Helgenberger (born 1958) was 33. She is now well known as Catherine Willows in “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”
• Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962) was 29. She played Tom’s girl friend Marriett

If I were not a Vince D’Onofrio fan, and if I did not enjoy watching know actors when they were just starting their careers, then I might not have initially chosen this melodrama. But the story was good enough to keep me interested to the end. Tom’s final family toast weepily tied together the story.

During the final credits Tom reads Ask’s “List of Things”.