Certain Women (2016)

The three barely connected stories here were drawn from two separate short story collections. The first has Laura Dern as the lawyer for Jared Harris, a man who was injured on the job and unfortunately agreed to much less money than he deserved. The second focuses on Michelle Williams and her husband, who was having an affair with Laura Dern’s character in the first story. They are building a dream weekend home and convince dementia sufferer Rene Auberjonois to give/sell them sandstone he has stored on his land. The third involves two women, Kristen Stewart as a lawyer teaching an adult education class that lonely ranch hand Lily Gladstone stumbles upon. I’m not sure the decision on making them into one work here. One unifying theme does seem to be how women are often reached out to by lonely people for reassurance and connection, though in the last segment the roles were somewhat switched in that the main character was alone and looking for the connection.