Play, Rewind

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Wes is stuck. He should be spending his twenties finishing the schooling that will help him land a career in movies, just like he's always dreamed about. Instead he divides his time between clerking in the most low-rent video store in Queens, and caring for a mom struggling with Alzheimer's. His father's out of the picture, and he has no realistic means of finding care for her—beyond the harried home nurse who's already on the brink of quitting—but even though he's sure his mother won't even remember his efforts, he's still committed to her. Still, he doesn't have much to do outside life's boring routines, except pressing Play and Rewind to try and identify the moments when it all went wrong. (And maybe watching the random vacation video that some customer left at the store to be copied.) Then: change. A friend from high school returns to the neighborhood after a mysterious absence, and a disreputable man from the neighborhood takes over