Mind you, some of the zealots who have tacked themselves onto the pro-cannabis lobby, who claim all weed is completely harmless, are equally as estranged from the real world.
Meanwhile Laura finds herself covertly back in touch with her husband, meeting him in secret in places far away from his own relations, plagued by an equally powerful longing for her estranged daughter.
His rapport with the "junk bond" market - whose contribution to his success arguably approaches that of his estranged wife, Ivana - has become equally rocky.
But later he has an equally famous scene, calmly speaking to his estranged wife, played by Natassja Kinski, speaking through peep show glass behind which she is required to perform for the customers, but invisibly and with his back to her, so they are strangely facing the same way as he calmly recounts the story which she does not immediately recognise as theirs.
For if we think of such separation as a state of being estranged or alienated from God, or if we think of it as simply the absence of a loving union with him, then (3) is equally consistent with many different conceptions of hell, some arguably milder than others.
Meanwhile, Wilson, who had been estranged from his father, trudges toward an equally predictable therapeutic denouement of "closure," healing and reconciliation.
Still, to pile on "Paula," while a fun way to spend an afternoon (especially at this point if you're his estranged wife, Paula Patton), diminishes a host of equally inconsequential, or memorably failed, would-be summer hits.
Just like King Lear's respectfully disobedient daughter, this screen siren and humanitarian award winner came to an equally tragic impasse with her "Hollywood royalty" father, Jon Voight, from whom she remains estranged.
References to alcoholism, dysfunctional parents, and estranged lovers reveal a more standard autobiographical impetus, but, through nearly four decades of work, the dream life is equally pervasive.
