Play It as It Lays

Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.

• drug abuse
• mental breakdown
• alienation
• film in film
• fame
• mental institution
• mental illness
• lgbt
• forced abortion
• marital tensions
• parental alienation
• lavender marriage