This trailer starts with a life lesson from Julianne Moore's character, who tells her son that, basically, some people's parents have to work, but they are lucky because they don't. This is an important lesson for a child, of course. It's the little-known, "Don't bother having a work ethic" lesson that you don't read about often in parenting books, but that comes in quite handy if you're filthy rich. This is apparently a true story about Barbara Daly (Moore), who married way above her class -- where she clearly fit right in, but I digress. Julianne Moore is going for another Oscar nomination here and she'll probably get it. She plays a crazy woman, who -- after her marriage fails -- seems to spend the rest of the movie ruining her son's life. She says mean, terrible things to him about the fact that he's gay, that he has emotional issues, that he still loves his father. But, at the same time, she makes him rely on her and makes him think she's relying on him. It looks like just the sort of sick, twisted, slightly (or more) incestuous performance that might actually get her the Oscar win this time.

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