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Her latest cookbook, “Southern Get-Togethers,” is an unfussy guide to making guests feel welcome.

Set designer Yuri Okahana-Benson’s skeleton structure in the modestly unfussy production evokes the kind of sets that Isamu Noguchi once designed for Martha Graham.

Supplying the unfussy warmth of a mismatched Hal Ashby rom-com, director Nathan Silver’s breakthrough soars on performances by Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane.

What‘s very much on offer, however, is a gently probing tale of moral seriousness about responsibility and guilt, developed from Jonathan Abrams’ patient screenplay and Eastwood’s reliably unfussy, character-driven stewardship.

It’s a straightforward production, with what I think of as classic British visual values — not exactly kitchen sink, but unfussy, realistic.