We have seen this film in many former guises, and many of them have featured Keaton in what has become a stock role: that of the single mother.

Winona Ryder has agreed to star in the indie comedy Mary Warner.

If you were a young man in the Peace Corps assigned to Afghanistan under the Taliban, what would you miss most? Razor blades? Hardly. Music? Maybe for some. The answer is pretty obvious. Movies. Could you do without seeing a single film for 24 months? I doubt it. You’d probably come back in a straitjacket, screaming in agony.