It’s a bright and sunny morning. Julia Roberts as a New York advertising executive named Amanda looks out the bedroom window of the Park Slope apartment and tells her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke), a laid-back college professor who is still in bed, about watching the sunrise and seeing so many people starting their day, determined to “make something of themselves, make something of our world. I felt so lucky to be a part of that. Then I remembered what the world is actually like, and I came to a more accurate realization.
“I f---ing hate people.”
