A sure satire hinged on a droll, mid-life love story, Spare Parts lampoons the media, military and politics and celebrates grass roots initiative in a post-9/11 world.

In the autumn of 2002, emotionally burned-out New Yorker Hunter Barnhill is resettling in Massachusetts' bucolic Berkshire Hills when a massive, pre-dawn explosion rocks the hills, a helicopter thunders over his farmhouse, and bulldozers rip across his property. Highway construction hurls Hunter onto a harrowing and hilarious path that connects small town machinations with big time political manipulations and...