A troubled singer who's attracting notice with a song about rape and a rock writer who knows more about her traumatic experience than he can bring himself to admit are brought together by their shared past in Allison Anders's intensely personal film. Every year for the past three years, up-and-coming singer-songwriter Sherry McGrale (Kim Dickens) has been arrested, drunk and disorderly, on the same day, on the lawn of the same modest Florida house. But this year, a judge orders her to attend a month's worth of AA meetings, and her arrest comes to the attention of an L.A.-based music magazine writer, Owen (Gabriel Mann), who realizes with a shock that he knows Sherry....
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
117 mins