Widow Kathy Bates hits the road with her brood for a better life in this well-made and wonderfully acted four-hanky family drama directed by Tony Bill (MY BODYGUARD, FIVE CORNERS).
In the early '60s, following the death of her husband, Frances Lacey (Bates) gets fed up with trying to raise her six kids in Los Angeles after she's fired from her job (for protesting a supervisor's sexual harassment) and discovers that her oldest son Shayne (TERMINATOR 2's Edward Furlong) has
taken to petty theft to buy his brothers and sisters candy. Loading her brood into their ancient Plymouth, she simply sets off in a vaguely northeasterly direction, in search of a home of the...
Released:
1993
Rated:
PG
Length:
103 mins