Dying City

This gripping, psychological drama was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and is a tour-de-force for two actors. When a young man goes off to war, his death thousands of miles away has rippling effects on those he leaves behind. Kelly, his widow, is a therapist who watches Law and Order because “the mystery of a death is solved and therefore symbolically reversed.” But when her dead husband’s twin brother shows up unexpectedly, what she believes to be true is called violently into question. Is the “closure” we seek after a death just an American myth?