Rebecca Miller's lyrical examination of the '60s counterculture's legacy of utopian hopes and dashed dreams is refracted through the relationship between a dying father and his teenage daughter.
1986: On a small island somewhere off the Eastern seaboard where a 60-person commune once thrived, only die-hard idealist Jack Slavin (Daniel Day-Lewis, Miller's husband) and his daughter, Rose (Camilla Belle), remain, living a self-sustaining existence in an organic house set on a hill. Their insular, self-sufficient paradise is under siege from within and without: Local developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges) is building a development of ticky-tacky houses on a tract ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
112 mins