DVD of the Week: Stephanie Daley

Amber Tamblyn and Tilda Swinton are superb in this intimate, heartbreaking drama about the darker aspects of pregnancy and motherhood. Swinton plays a pregnant forensic psychiatrist still mourning the memory of a child she never carried to term. She's investigating Stephanie Daley (Tamblyn), a local all-American teen girl who's been accused of murdering her child in a bathroom stall to avoid the social embarrassment of being a mother at sixteen. The film, consisting largely of long talks between the two, is a gripping and sometimes utterly devastating drama about life in all its stages.