"The beginning was a phone call from Jim Parsons, who sent me a video of his 10-year-old nephew in Texas who is a prodigy — brilliant, extraordinary, off the hook, crazy smart kid. And Jim asked ...

Miserable at mothering, even herself, Phyllis Herman (Jessica Lange), depends on her two kids Martha Herman,(Keenan-Bolger) and Carl Herman, (Jim Parsons), to mother her. Phyllis clings to her ...