Shy People (1987) review

Diana Sullivan (Jill Clayburgh), a reporter for Cosmopolitan magazine, takes her cokehead daughter Grace (Martha Plimpton) to the Louisiana bayou to investigate the whereabouts of her long-lost great uncle Joe - while there, they meet Joe's widow Ruth (Barbara Hershey), who lives with her dimwitted sons Paul (Pruitt Taylor Vince), Tommy (John Philbin) and Mark (Don Swayze) and Mark's pregnant wife Candy (Mare Winningham) ... and then discover Ruth has another son, Michael (Merritt Butrick), who 'went to the city.'  The first half is a somewhat interesting drama about trauma and the lies families tell themselves to keep going (with some nice cinematography by Chris Menges), but it runs out of ideas as to where to go, resorting to hysterics when Ruth gets out a gun and then Grace acts like Lolita, handing out blow so the lads get super horny and violent.  It ends with the suggestion all these individuals might somehow find a way to heal ... but I strongly doubt it.