Benjamin Hood is reeling from drink, while his wife reads self-help books and loses patience with her husband's lies. Their son Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring girl, and Wendy Hood is roaming the neighborhood looking for something new.

"THE ASSISTANT" follows one day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. Her day is much like any other assistant's - making coffee, changing the paper in the copy machine, ordering lunch, arranging travel, taking phone messages, onboarding a new hire. But as Jane follows her daily routine, she, and we, grow...