The Safety of Objects (2001) on Netflix

Plot summary

Paul Gold lies in a coma at home after a car accident, and his mother Esther tends him so closely that her husband Howard and her daughter Julie are pushed aside. Julie, hoping to draw her mother's notice, signs Esther up for a local radio contest whose prize is a new car. Jim Train, who has put his job before his family, is skipped over for a promotion and stops going to work, then talks Esther and Julie into letting him help with the contest. Helen Christianson feels older and less desirable, so she tries products meant to keep her young. Her friend Annette Jennings, going through a divorce, struggles to support her two daughters. The neighborhood landscaper Randy is mourning his younger brother's death.