The Myth of Fingerprints

A pleasantly straightforward movie about the sort of mind-games played when the members of a dispersed New England family gather to celebrate Thanksgiving.

It's a performance-driven piece, competently if unspectacularly orchestrated by the first-time writer-director Bart Freundlich into a series of minor insights, which deliberately steer away from catharsis.

It's the underrated Roy Schneider and the ever-brilliant Julianne Moore who really make this worth seeing.

Efficient performances from Blythe Danner and ER's Noah Wyle can't lift the atmosphere of ponderous self-absorption.