A great script is a ticket to another world, and you carry the characters with you for a few weeks. "American Woman" seems to borrow from Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," although it's less slow, less self-indulgent than "Boyhood." A woman, Deb, sits with her adolescent daughter. The two are talking about dresses for an upcoming date. Deb had her daughter when she was sixteen--and, at sixteen, the daughter went ahead and had a son. Everyone is together under one roof. (Did this then lead to "Mare of Easttown"?) We think we're going to be watching a parent/child film--but, within a few minutes, a random murder occurs. Deb is now without her kid, and she must raise the grandchild on her own. Over two hours, we track Deb through bad relationships, despair, drunken tantrums, betrayals, celebrations. Deb ends things with one terrible man after a confrontation with the man's wife. ("You think you're special? You're the fir...