Good Choices

Hoping to do right by their young children, struggling yuppies Alden and Brooke move their family into the nicest house they can affordon the worst street in an affluent California city. Its a point of contention in their relationship, but not the only Alden has just lost his ad agency job and spends his days away from home ostensibly looking for work, leaving Brooke alone to manage the children. To make matters more troubling, their three-year-old, Marlowe, hasnt met some critical developmental milestones, a fact that naturally worries Brooke. As she takes stock of their livesand their lifestyleshe feels a rising tide of anxiety over their lack of income, their expensive farmers market cuisine, Marlowes speech therapy, the Prius. So when a nosey neighbor raises suspicions about Aldens comings and goings outside the house, the moment is ripe for further doubt and disillusionment.