Wildflowers

Sixties flower-power clichés are venerated in this meandering melodrama, which chronicles the rude awakenings of various aging hippies. It's 1985: Free-spirited teenager Cally (Clea DuVall), who's grown up in a Northern California commune with little supervision from pot-smoking pop Wade (Tomas Arana), senses an immediate bond with former radical Sabine (Daryl Hannah), a troubled woman who blows back into town to care for a dying friend. As Cally slowly learns the details of Sabine's past as an SDS activist who was eventually forced into hiding, Cally begins to believe Sabine is her mother. Sabine — who's emphatically not the maternal type — denies...