Jennifer Jason Leigh

Josie Tyrell, a teen runaway and art model, falls in love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout. But when Michael commits suicide, Josie is left searching for the key to Michael's death. Compounding her grief and rage is Michael's pianist mother, Meredith, who holds Josie responsible for her only son's death. Despite a fierce mutual enmity, the two women find themselves drawn into an eerie relationship reflecting equal parts distrust and blind need....

In this psychological thriller, New Yorker Allie Jones advertises for a roommate and chooses mousy Hedra Carlson. Hedra takes over Allie's spare bedroom, her clothes, her boyfriend and her identity.