Literate, low-key and quietly powerful, writer-director Maureen Foley's debut feature looks at the turbulent inner life of an adolescent girl coming of age at the end of the Kennedy era. Eleven-year-old Nora (Stephanie Castellarin) lives in the shadow of tragedy
that struck even before she was born: En route to the family's new home in rural Massachusetts, her mother Dolores (Patricia Kalember) crashed her car into a dairy truck, killing her three small children. Years pass, and Dolores and husband Martin (Brian Delate) pull their lives back together
enough to start a second family. But the emotionally scarred Dolores has embarked on a slow retreat from reality, lo...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
110 mins