They're keeping it all in the family. The movie is based on a one-woman play that Lynn Adams wrote and her sister Brooke Adams directed. The movie is once again written by Lynn and directed by Tony Shalhoub, who's married to Brooke. Lynn and Brooke produced it together.

Question: What was it like working on both sides of the camera?

Tony: It was really an experience being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.

Brooke: Yeah, I did.

Question: What was it like working with each other?

Tony: I loved working with Brooke.

Brooke: He was actually a lot of fun to work with. He was great - we really got along. It was fun - we were away from our children, so it was really fun. We pretended we were having an affair.

Question: The relationship between the sisters was wonderful - it was believable.

Tony: As much as the movie is about making a movie, and aging, and about women and everything. We think at the core, it's really about the family. It's about this relationship between the sisters and the daughter, and their extended family which includes the ex-husband and Molly, who somehow there's no way to separate her out, she's in the formula.

Question: The camera seemed really close to the action and there wasn't a lot of pan. Was that your intention?

Tony: Because the sister is documenting the life of her other sister and her daughter, we wanted to explore the idea of how do people behave when they know they're being filmed. What of their behavior is real, what of it is semi-calculated, so we kind of wanted to get in there so we could read all of the subtle nuances when they were not totally true and when they forgot that the camera was there - when they were so caught up in their actual predicaments and problems that they forgot that they were on film. Then also did a few scenes that were stolen scenes where people didn't know they were being filmed. And so we wanted to just feel all those gradations.

Question: Which were the stolen scenes?

Tony: The obvious ones were the spy cam, where one guy is outside the window and then the character of Simon comes and puts down the little camera on the table and shoots Brooke at a wonky angle - that was a place where Brooke didn't know she was being filmed. It sort of shows how sick Kate's character is, because she's coming into her sister's kitchen at a very vulnerable moment and still trying to get some juice for her movie, even at the expense of her sister and her vulnerability. The other stolen scene was the final confrontation scene where the camera is two rooms away shooting through the doorways, all in one long master. That was another scene where the sisters were not really aware that they were actually on film.

Question: Who was supposed to be filming all those scenes?

Tony: My feeling was that it was always Simon, sitting out in this other room, being really twisted and perverse. This was the chance that Kate, Lynn's character, didn't even know that she was being filmed - this was a time when they could speak the unspeakable to each other, and that allows us to do that.

Question: What about the whole drinking scene - were we supposed to think that you didn't really drink or what?

Brooke: No, I really did get drunk. I think I was just trying to pretend that I didn't get drunk later - that was what I was saying, "I'm such a good actress."