Boston movies

Stars Hope Davis as a South End lonely-heart with a meddling mother (Holland Taylor) and Alan Gelfant as the East Boston plumber-turned-marine-biology student who keeps just missing meeting her. Burr says the movie with a bossa nova soundtrack strikes "the right balance between tourist Boston and lived-in Boston.'' There's a shot of rush-hour crowds on the Blue Line that's like a museum exhibit of New England faces, and the film's perverse un-love story, in the words of former Globe critic Jay Carr, "easily aligns with the bred-in-the-bone Boston conviction that nothing should come easily."

Pictured, Alan Gelfant (left) as Alan Monteiro and Hope Davis as Erin Castleton.