To orient you to a filmmaker who's been away for far too long: If Wes Anderson's central preoccupation is tightly-controlled diorama-like compositions, Tim Burton's obsession is dark, kooky misfits, and Sofia Coppola's fixation is alienated teenagers soundtracked to exquisite pop songs, then Laurie Collyer's main absorption is the forgotten underclass and their perils. The filmmaker behind "Sherrybaby" (and the gripping social documentary "Nuyorican Dream"), Collyer hasn't made a movie since 2006, but her latest, "Sunlight Jr.," could easily act as the third in a trilogy about the the impoverished, the destitute and the depressed. And severely depressed, "Sunlight Jr." is. So much so that it may be too hard to watch for some viewers. Set in the indigent, trailer-park trash areas of Southern Florida, Collyer's latest writer/directorial effort centers on a uneducated, penniless couple struggling to get by on minimum wage. Their daily struggle is doubly difficult to endure because...
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