The Shower

A feminine take on a Cassavetes drama the film focuses on a group of women who have gathered for a surprise baby shower However as the female guests arrive the household males having adjourned to an afternoon football game the offscreen mothertobe goes into premature labour leaving the bored invitees to sip spiked punch and discuss the dearth of available men until the drunken boys return home thus setting the stage for malefemale confrontations confessions and clumsy acts of copulationnotably while standing under a shower An exploration of the contemporary trappings of malefemale sexual politics