Heights

If you feel the world of artsy, neurotic New Yorkers has not been sufficiently explored by Woody Allen, then you may want to see this film. Or if you like urban romantic rondelays like London’s Love, Actually or the Parisian Same Old Song. Chris Terrio’s debut feature adapts a play by Amy Fox, but opens it up nicely to Big Apple locales. Glenn Close plays a fearsome theatrical celebrity who is playing Lady Macbeth on Broadway. Pittsfield native Elizabeth Banks is her daughter, caught between a nascent career as a photographer and a prospective marriage to a guy who is secretly gay. George Segal and Isabella Rossellini are among the familiar faces that turn up in peripheral roles, as a large cast deceives each other, and especially themselves. Too familiar by half, and only half-smart, this still is not a chore to watch. (2004, dvd, n.) *6* (MC-59.)