Adorned with sunglasses and in a pink fur-trimmed robe, Jean (Rachel Brosnahan) sits reclined on her patio chair as she sips champagne. Bobbie Gentry’s “I Wouldn’t Be Surprised” — one of the film’s many soulful needle drops — fills the ears. Jean doesn’t worry about much. The chic woman lives in a contemporary suburban home with her husband Eddie (Bill Heck), where her gravest trouble, in the opening minutes, is finding a pair of scissors to cut the price tag from her robe. But her outwardly idyllic life changes when Eddie surprisingly appears with an adopted baby.

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