From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

Nice to be a debutante screenwriter

whose first produced

screenplay is basically done so much

and such a great movie.

That film, of course, is Rachel Getting Married.

It's author, Jane Lamed is sitting across from me.

Thanks so much for doing this.

I'm thrilled to be here. Thank you.

You're talking before about you being a teacher

when he got started.

And one of the things that is so fascinating to me about this is the group dynamics of that, of the film itself.

And every time your protagonist goes into another group, she becomes a different person.

I mean, she's trying to feel herself out and yet still have people pay attention to her.

That's interesting.

And so when she goes from group to group, like when she goes from a family situation to maybe a meeting, I think she's probably at her best self when she's in the win with the recovery people.

And I think that the character of Kim is at her best when nobody's pulling at her.

And in the meetings, nobody's pulling at her.

Nobody wants her to be finished, safe.

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