<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>A man’s future abruptly ends when a stray bullet kills the woman he loves, pregnant with their first child. Wandering the streets of New York in despair, he contemplates how such betrayal of hope can lurk beneath the urban/suburban gloss that surrounds him. But rescue comes by way of a loving husband and wife, living by choice on the margins of society after having turned their backs on America’s shallow “Hollywood” aspirations—a reality that so many today are realizing is just that, an “American dream” unattainable for most. They listen to his story, and tell their own, delving into the implications of love, friendship, and war, while ongoing televised reporting covers a Chechen astronaut who has disconnected himself from his spacecraft, an act that has captured the world’s attention, a moment of contrition that extends out and connects people as they seek to find meaning in this world. <I>Hollywood</I> is a masterful and delicate unveiling of how life becomes a revelation about the human heart and the sweet brevity of our earthly existence.