Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

That wonderful actor, Frank Langella, gives a bravura performance in Starting Out in the Evening, as Leonard Schiller, an aged writer, whose best work is long behind him, and largely forgotten. Two refugees from Six Feet Under are also in the cast, Lili Taylor, as his daughter having a crisis all her own, and Lauren Ambrose, as a young fan attempting to revive his career through her "rediscovery," as it were. This once incredibly attractive actor is certainly not afraid to offer a warts-and-all portrayal of a certain New York literary type, and I, for one, hope that he gets some long overdue recogniton come awards season.