Patricia Clarkson

In order to become more independent following the end of her marriage, a Manhattan woman takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor who is having his own marriage problems.

When two friends decide to start having a sexual relationship, their lives and feelings for each other become complicated.

Things go awry when a matriarch plans a holiday gathering with her family at their Northern California lake house.

This middle-class family looks perfect from the outside, but behind closed doors she is having an affair with their African American gardener, and he is struggling to deal with his homosexuality.

Set in the 1940s, a philandering husband plots his wife's death instead of facing the turmoil of divorce.

David Kepesh is growing old. He's a professor of literature, a student of American hedonism, and an amateur musician and photographer. When he finds a student attractive, Consuela, a 24-year-old Cuban, he sets out to seduce her. Along the way, he swims in deeper feelings, maybe he's drowning. She presses him to sort out what he wants from her, and a relationship develops. They talk of traveling. He confides in his friend, George, a poet long-married,...