Screenplay written by Gordy Hoffman, Philip Seymour's brother.
There are two scenes when Wilson (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to get into his mother-in-law's (Kathy Bates) house, he is screaming and rattling the bars on the outside of the house, as if he is imprisoned. This represents the cage of grief, how inescapable grief is.
Philip Seymour Hoffman & Jack Kehler both starred in The Big Lebowski (1998).