Excellent performances from Jacqueline Bisset and Martha Plimpton grace this deeply touching melodrama about a one-time free spirit who must now face the fact that she may be dying of cancer. Frances (Bisset) is a self-described vagabond, a former political activist and the mother of two sons: aspiring San Francisco photographer Morgan (Nick Stahl) and Rich, a drifter whom Frances hasn't seen in years. In addition to running poverty programs in poor New York City neighborhoods, Frances once worked the night-owl shift at a small Daytona Beach radio station where she was known to her listeners as "The Sleepy Time Gal"; she now barely gets by as a freelance writer. Fran...
Released:
2001
Rated:
n/a
Length:
94 mins