The Pain and the Itch September 26, 2006

With a young daughter in serious need of attention and a ravenous creature possibly prowling the upstairs bedrooms, what begins as an average Thanksgiving for one privileged family unravels into an expose of disastrous choices and less-than-altruistic motives. 'The Pain and the Itch' is a scathing satire of the politics of class and race, a controversial, painfully human examination of denial and its consequences.