What could have been another unremarkable addition to the "feisty old lady" TV-movie genre is saved by Anne Bancroft, who paints a corrosive portrait of a resentful, solitary soul furious at being interrupted by visitors.
Dicey Tillerman (Kimberlee Petersen) is a teenager in trouble. She and her siblings have been abandoned in the family car by their mentally ill mother. But Dicey resolves to visit their Aunt Cilla in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She pushes younger siblings James (Trevor O'Brien), Maybeth (Hanna Hall),
and Sammy (William Greenblatt) on a grueling pilgrimage. Penniless and starving, the brood is befriended by a Yale University student, Windy (Scott M...
Released:
1996
Rated:
PG
Length:
100 mins