Two Lovers (2009)


Gwyneth Paltrow         Michelle Rausch
Elias Koteas            Ronald Blatt
Don J. Hewitt           Another Bystander
Marion McCorry          Receptionist
Joaquin Phoenix         Leonard Kraditor
Vinessa Shaw            Sandra Cohen
Isabella Rossellini     Ruth Kraditor
John Ortiz              Jose Cordero
Bob Ari                 Michael Cohen
Julie Budd              Carol Cohen
Samantha Ivers          Stephanie

Directed by:            James Gray
Produced by:            Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Marc Butan


Leonard, a charismatic but troubled young man, moves back into his childhood home following a 
recent heartbreak. While recovering under the watchful eye of his parents, Leonard meets two 
women in quick succession: Michelle, a mysterious and beautiful neighbor who is exotic and 
out-of-place in Leonard's staid world, and Sandra, the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman 
who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard becomes deeply infatuated by Michelle, 
who seems poised to fall for him, but is having a self-destructive affair with a married man. At the 
same time, mounting pressure from his family pushes him towards committing to Sandra. Leonard is 
forced to make an impossible decision - between the impetuousness of desire and the comfort of love 
- or risk falling back into the darkness that nearly killed him.

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Leonard Kraditor is a burned-out case, living with his immigrant parents after his fiancée left him, 
helping out at their Brooklyn dry cleaners, taking photographs, at loose ends, suicidal. In quick 
succession, he meets two women: Sarah, the daughter of his parents' business associates, frank, 
direct, sensual, Jewish like Leonard; and, his neighbor Michelle, mercurial, rootless, fun, blond, 
unattainable. Michelle is in love with a married man and cries on Leonard's shoulder; Sarah wants to 
save him. Is Leonard willing to risk losing Sarah's fidelity for the moments Michelle's moods swing 
toward him? Can this end well?