Matchstick Men (PG-13)
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Well, this is a pretty good movie. An interesting story, a decent character study, with both drama and humor being nicely understated. Definitely one of the better films that I feel no particular need to see again. It's about a con artist named Ray (Nicolas Cage), who has some problems like obsessive-compulsive disorder, and facial tics, and agoraphobia. Things are going well, though, until one day he accidentally knocks his pills down the sink, and can't reach his doctor, who had illegally supplied him with these pills. So he kinda loses it, and stays home cleaning and stuff... When he never answers calls from his partner Frank (Sam Rockwell), Frank comes over, and recommends a new psychiatrist for him who may be able to help. Dr. Klein gives Ray a different kind of pills, and also therapy. He gets Ray thinking about his ex-wife, and also that she was pregnant the last time he saw her, like 15 years ago. Ray would like to make contact with her, but can't bring himself to do so, so he asks Dr. Klein to do it. He later reports to Ray that while his ex-wife doesn't want to talk to him, he has a 14-year-old daughter named Angela (Alison Lohman), who wants to meet him.

Well, so he meets her, and things start out shaky, but soon they bond. And um... well things are pretty much alternately good and bad throughout their relationship. And when she finds out he's a con artist, she wants him to teach her the tricks of the trade, and against his better judgement, he does so. Eventually she ends up helping with a scam Ray and Frank are running against some guy... who makes trouble for them later. Things get really bad. And then... a plot twist is revealed, consisting of several elements, most of which I pretty much saw coming. But it was still good. And I guess that's about all I want to say.