But somehow the actress still manages to shine even as the movie chronicles her characters bleak demise.

Shes struggled to find work since her divorce and return home to New York.

Sharing her mothers disability checks, the situation could be graver for Kyra.

WHERE IS KYRA?, Michelle Pfeiffer, 2017. ph: John Bradford/©Great Point Media/courtesy Everett

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Then, Ruth dies.

It seems to be an attraction born out of desperation to feel something more than anything else.

This feeling of unrelenting despair can become a tad tedious.

And the actress finesse makes it worth the watch.