This is the fifth feature by Lynn Shelton, the Seattle based writer/director who hit a home run with her prior film, Your Sister's Sister. As with many American directors of her generation, her low-to-no-budget style is relaxed and almost always motions toward the authentic, respecting the twists, turns, and pauses of a real conversation.

As with Your Sister's Sister, this film stars the glowing Rosemarie DeWitt. She portrays a New Age masseuse who, on the eve of moving in with her significant other (Scoot McNairy), finds herself disgusted by human contact, upending her career and life. Meanwhile, the fortunes of her brother, an uptight dentist with a failing practice (Josh Pais), improve almost overnight as positive word-of-mouth spreads regarding his treatment of temporomandibular joint syndrome. Though there is no overt indication of a magical component, the film almost plays as a dialogue driven, low-key variation on a comedy such as Big as two siblings, the outgoing sister and the painful introvert of a brother, experience life from the perspective of the other for a few days. Another recognizable face on hand is Ellen Page as the heroine's niece, afraid to tell her father she is not interested in following in his footsteps. Each character's small crisis is quietly presented with concern and dignity.

"How are you?" an old flame inquires of DeWitt's character at one point. She grimaces, then smiles, then says she does not know. This is the space, the magic and uncertainty of day-to-day life and human relationships, where Shelton's films live, and even though the cumulative impact of this hour-and-a-half parade of close character observation and lightly amusing, very sympathetic conversation does not rival Your Sister's Sister, it still registers as a charming and heartfelt gem in miniature, and spending a brief amount of time in the extraordinarily regular lives of the characters is a pleasant experience.

B+