Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Ask yourself if you're really happy.

The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.

Drama

Matthew McConaughey

(Troy)

John Turturro

(Walker)

Clea DuVall

(Beatrice)

Amy Irving

(Patricia)

Alan Arkin

(Gene)

David Connolly

(Owen)

Joseph Siravo

(Bureau Chief)

A.D. Miles

(Co-Worker)

Sig Libowitz

(Assistant Attorney)

James Yaegashi

(Legal Assistant)

Dion Graham

(Defense Attorney)

Fernando López

(Defendant)

Brian Smiar

(Judge)

Paul Austin

(Bartender)

Allie Woods Jr.

(Cab Driver)

Barbara Sukowa

(Helen)

Rob McElhenney

(Aspiring Medical Student)

Avery Glymph

(Intelligent Student)

Elizabeth Reaser

(Young Woman in Class)

Deirdre Lovejoy

(Student Teacher)

Barbara Andres

(Neighbor)

William Severs

(Doctor)

Joel Marsh Garland

(Mover)

Tia Texada

(Dorrie)

Peggy Gormley

(Bea's Mother)

Malcolm Gets

(Architect)

Miles Thompson

(Neighborhood Boy)

Robertson Carricart

(Pastor)

Joe Chappel

(Choir Member)

Phyllis Curran

(Choir Member)

Richard Erickson

(Choir Member)

Julia Erickson

(Choir Member)

Kent K.B. Hanson

(Choir Member)

William Lutz

(Choir Member)

Jos Milton

(Choir Member)

Beth Shane

(Choir Member)

Tobin Schmuck

(Choir Member)

Dorothy Scholz

(Choir Member)

Emma-Jane Stokely

(Choir Member)

Yoshisuke Yamada

(Choir Member)

Frankie Faison

(Dick Lacey)

William Wise

(Wade Bowman)

Shawn Elliott

(Mickey Wheeler)

Alex Burns

(Ronnie)

James Murtaugh

(Lew Kincannon)

Richard Council

(Del Strickland)

Walt MacPherson

(Donald)

Leo V. Finnie III

(Pete)

Daryl Edwards

(Glenn)

Charlie Schroeder

(Young Finance Manager)

Robert Colston

(Sales Manager)

Gammy Singer

(Gene's Secretary)

Melissa Maxwell

(Del's Receptionist)

Eliza Pryor Nagel

(Ronnie's Roommate)

Jeff Robins

(Freeloader)

Victor Truro

(Coffee Shop Counterman)

Paul Klementowicz

(Public Defender)

Phyllis Bash

(Judge)

Peter McCabe

(Court Clerk)

Christian Pabon

(Teenager on Subway)

Cameron Stevens

(Young Man in Courthouse (uncredited))