THE ICE STORM

5Bed partners: Sigourney Weaver, bored with her own husband, sleeps around with their neighbor Kevin Kline. Debauchery!

I'm amazed not as many have seen Ang Lee's 1997 mood piece THE ICE STORM, a film he made before his universal success CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, as it rightfully deserves. (In fact, the picture was released in the same year as TITANIC and subsequently overlooked at the 70th Academy Awards.)
Set during Thanksgiving '73, the well-observed character study tells the story of "two dysfunctional suburban Connecticut families who are trying to deal with tumultuous political and social changes of the early 1970s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery, and sexual experimentation".
As a non sequitur, there are references to Nixon and the Watergate scandal, but it was Christina Ricci's fashion faux pas and the swinger's key party that left me the most indelible impressions.