Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) on Netflix
In New York City, a district attorney, an insurance manager, a physics professor and a cleaning woman cross paths. Troy's hit-and-run leaves Beatrice injured; Gene's son is addicted to drugs.
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Plot summary
Thirteen vignettes, each introduced by an aphorism, follow several people in New York City whose paths cross. Troy is an ambitious district attorney who hits Beatrice, an idealistic cleaning woman, with his car and drives on; guilt sets in afterward. Beatrice spends her recuperation rethinking her life, and her co-worker Dorrie is cynical. Gene is a mid-level insurance claims manager who cannot cope with his son's slide into drug addiction, and a relentlessly cheerful employee at the office grates on him. Walker teaches physics at a college and is in midlife; he gets involved with a colleague, and Patricia is his wife.
Cast
- David Connollyas Owen
- Fernando Lópezas Defendant
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jill Sprecher's screenplay for the film was inspired in part by events from her own life, including two muggings and a subway assault she experienced.
- Clea DuVall's character Beatrice, the idealistic cleaning woman, was autobiographical for co-writer and director Jill Sprecher, who said she was someone who saw only good around her until getting mugged changed her opinion of human beings.
- Jill and Karen Sprecher wrote the script in eight weeks, finishing it before Jill's directorial debut Clockwatchers was released in 1997, but a lack of funding meant the film took over three years to make.
