Offbeat but absorbing. Set in the 1950s and based on a Marilynne Robinson novel, this is the first American film from Scottish director Bill Forsyth.
After the suicide of their mother, two young girls, Ruth (Sara Walker) and Lucille (Andrea Burchill), are brought up by their grandmother in a small Idaho town. When she dies, a pair of elderly great-aunts persuade Ruth and Lucille's itinerant aunt, Sylvie (Christine Lahti), to look after her two
nieces, who are now approaching adolescence. Sylvie, who has spent most of her life riding the rails and sleeping on benches, sets up housekeeping in her own fashion and goes about child-rearing in an unorthodox manner. Lu...
Released:
1987
Rated:
PG
Length:
116 mins