Grief takes unusual path in 'Manchester by the Sea'

Grief moves in mysterious ways in "Manchester by the Sea," a poignant and sometimes funny independent movie about a working-class American family dealing with multiple tragedies that has become a Hollywood awards season front-runner. Three years in the making and filmed on a tight budget, the movie follows Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck), whose solitary life is upended when his brother dies and he is forced to take care of his ebullient teenage nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges) and return to the Massachusetts fishing village where his past haunts him. "What happens to somebody who's dealt a hand that they cannot recover from?" said Hedges, explaining the movie's central theme.