If I Forget is a powerful portrait of a family trying to survive in a changing world
An intellectual debate escalates into the unwinding of tightly-coiled fears. Steven Levenson's family drama, set in the months immediately before and after the 2000 presidential election (but before 9/11) offers a time capsule of the cusp of the millennium, complete with Nader voters, newfangled cell phones, and Internet chat rooms. But the issues it tackles have only grown more pronounce…