The 2001 Grand Jury Prize winner at the increasingly relevant Slamdance Film Festival, Debra Eisenstadt's bitingly funny, poignantly sad feature debut is the highly original sum of a few very familiar parts: small-town girl, big city dreams, acting career gone awry. Valerie Woodbury (Sybil Kempson) is pretty well known around Hoosick, Vermont, for her appearances in such local productions as all-female versions of
Waiting for Godot and
Of Mice and Men, and she's just been handed the lead in local playwright/director Boyd's (Gladden Schrock) latest drama. Valerie is supposed to be planning her wedding and looking for a place to live — she and fianc...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
79 mins