Two deeply damaged siblings try to escape their abusive past in visual-effects artist William Maher's directing debut, from a script by Zac Stanford (THE CHUMSCRUBBER).
Joleen Reedy (Charlize Theron, who also produced), a drifter whose life is measured in useless boyfriends and abrupt relocations, is on the wrong side of 30 and is a barely adequate mother to 11-year-old Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). When Joleen's latest guy, a small-time drug dealer, is busted in the middle of the night, she and Tara are abruptly left homeless. Joleen turns to her younger brother, James (Nick Stahl), who lives in a dump on the literal wrong side of the tracks and has a dead-end pu...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins