Lovely & Amazing

Running on the beach with her big-earner pal (Dreya Weber), under-employed LA mom Michelle (Catherine Keener) reflects about her mother (Brenda Blethyn), who visits a liposuction specialist (Michael Nouri) and gets wobbly, in writer-director Nicole Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing, 2001.

Appealing opening music and graphics lead to writer-director Nicole Holofcener's swift introduction of four principals, Emily Mortimer, R-rated, as Elizabeth , Brenda Blethyn her mom Jane, Raven Goodwin as younger adopted daughter Annie and Catherine Keener as sister Michelle, in Lovely & Amazing, 2001.

Catherine Keener as Michelle driving with daughter (Ashlynn Rose) and her mother's adopted youngest (Raven Goodwin), talking about their mom Jane (Brenda Blethyn), who's going in for liposuction, other-daughter Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer) attending, Michael Nouri her surgeon, in Nicole Holofcener's Lovely & Amazing, 2001.