http://www.avclub.com/content/topics/Domestic_melodrama/feed en-us http://www.avclub.com/content/dvds/intimate_affairs?utm_source=from_tag Filmed in 2001, Alan Rudolph’s surprisingly winning trifle—formerly known as Investigating Sex—gets the straight-to-DVD treatment. Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:01:40 -0500 DVD Review Nathan_Rabin Drama_Movie Domestic_melodrama Nick_Nolte Julie_Delpy Neve_Campbell Alan_Rudolph Terrance_Howard http://www.avclub.com/content/node/72249 http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/look?utm_source=from_tag A mélange of interconnected stories a la Crash or Magnolia touch on the lack of privacy in American life. Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:04:04 -0500 Cinema Review Noel_Murray Drama_Movie Domestic_melodrama Adam_Rifkin Rhys_Coiro Hayes_MacArthur Giuseppe_Andrews http://www.avclub.com/content/node/71689 http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/this_christmas?utm_source=from_tag Spending the holidays together for the first time in four years, an upper-middle-class African-American family has issues to sort out. Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:08:10 -0500 Cinema Review Nathan_Rabin Drama_Movie Domestic_melodrama Idris_Elba Preston_A._Whitmore_II Delroy_Lindo Chris_Brown Regina_King 70154_d38bd90a2b6b90dd0ea23cbf1ccb72e6 http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/introducing_the_dwights?utm_source=from_tag What's it like having a second-rate, foul-tongued stand-up comedian for a mother? It can get pretty embarrassing. Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:39:22 -0400 Cinema Review Scott_Tobias Drama_Movie Domestic_melodrama Showbiz stand-up_comedy Cherie_Nowlan Brenda_Blethyn Khan_Chittenden Emma_Booth Oedipal dysfunctional 63459_2b8ef630a3964ea33f62ac09b17f0cc5 http://www.avclub.com/content/cinema/steel_city?utm_source=from_tag In this low-key independent, a fatal car crash sends the lives of several rural Midwesterners into disarray. Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:10:02 -0400 Cinema Review Tasha_Robinson Drama_Movie Domestic_melodrama Brian_Jun Tom_Guiry John_Heard America_Ferrera Illinois 62847_abf295d7a7fed8dc1442d7e309dfcc9a http://www.avclub.com/content/node/58601?utm_source=from_tag The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are put on trial in this unusual slice-of-life from African director Abderrahmane Sissako. Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:39:51 -0500 Cinema Review Scott_Tobias Africa Danny_Glover Abderrahmane_Sissako Aïssa_Maïga Tiecoura_Traore Mauritania Tiecoura_Traore Elia_Suleiman IMF World_Bank Drama_Movie Domestic_melodrama 58601_a259f129d05975ce971457c307b55333