Plot: After attempting to commit suicide jumping in the water, Leonard Kraditor gives up and returns to his parent's apartment in Brooklyn. Leonard had a great disappointment with his fiancee and after a psychological treatment, he is not stable. During the night, he meets Sandra Cohen in a dinner party promoted by his family to the family of Michael Cohen, who wants a partnership with his father in his dry cleaning business. Later Leonard meets his new neighbor Michelle Rausch and he immediately feels attracted to her. Leonard and Sandra have a love affair with each other, and Sandra feels in love with him. But Leonard is in love with Michelle that is in love with her married lover Ronald Blatt that does not leave his wife and children to stay with her. How will this quartet of unrequited loves end?
Alternative Plot: Following a broken engagement, sometime photographer Leonard Kraditor (Joaquin Phoenix) moves in with his parents in Brighton Beach. He soon becomes involved with Sandra (Vinessa Shaw), an honest and sensible young woman. They appear to be a perfect match, then Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow) enters the picture. Beautiful but manipulative, she wraps him around her finger, even though she has a rich, married boyfriend.
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