“A Little Prayer,” a movie written and directed by Angus MacLachlan, took nine years to write and debuted at Sundance Film Festival two years ago. In the film, playing at two Manhattan cinemas, we watch parents become aware that their son is cheating on his wife.

What follows is the tension between recognition and revelation and the hope that reality will somehow resolve itself, even as we watch characters and cast wrestle with an emotional situation – that impacts them all.

David Strathairn, who plays the father burdened with the revelation, spoke recently at Angelika Film Center at 18 W. Houston St. It’s also playing at the AMC Empire 25 at 234 West 42nd Street and North Shore Towers Cinema, 27240 Grand Central Parkway, Floral Park, Queens.

The movie has an Edward Hopper-esque feel of

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