The Safety of Objects was originally screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. It is a story about the inter-connecting lives of four suburban families. Once an up-and-coming...

The Safety of Objects was originally screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. It is a story about the inter-connecting lives of four suburban families. Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold now lies in a coma, attentively nursed by his mother Esther, who dotes on her son to the exclusion of her husband and her daughter Julie. Meanwhile, Jim Train is a workaholic lawyer who is closer to his tortes than to his spouse Susan. Their son Jake has taken a morbid fascination with his sister's foot-high girl doll. At the same time, Paul's former lover Annette Jennings is trying to pull her life and her family back together after a particularly brutal divorce.