In 1984, an actress (Allison Janney) takes her lover (Christian Camargo) to her country house to meet the folks in this film from actor-director-writer Camargo (“Dexter”).

It’s based on Anton Chekhov’s immortal “The Seagull,” and though the bird is now an eagle, the plot hasn’t changed much.

Light straggles through trees and windows and dust swirls through the air, as is customary for dysfunctional-family tales.

The cast, so packed with talent that Jean Reno and Cherry Jones barely register, is stuck with stagey dialogue. Juliet Rylance, in the Nina part, has a particularly hard time.

But there are good points, including Janney’s obvious pleasure in her part. Katie Holmes convinces as a sad-faced, unhappily married woman. And William Hurt dances to Supertramp’s “The Logical Song,” which is something to relish.