Clara's Ghost

Actor Ted Reynolds and Clara, his scattered, homemaker wife, welcome their twenty-something daughters - a pair of former child stars - back to their Connecticut home so Ted and the girls can be in a family-themed photo shoot for an airplane magazine. While celebrating their dog’s birthday with amiable drug dealer Poo Poo, the vodka-loving clan’s banter becomes increasingly bitter and petty, and they devolve into a drunken mess. Meanwhile, a specter only Clara can see urges her to confront her self-centered family. (Sundance Film Festival)