This Oscar nominated drama focuses on the relationship between a single mother with a habit of hitting the road as soon as things start to turn sour, and her twelve year old daughter who, over the years, has learned to cope with her mother’s nomadic ways. Awarded Best Debut Performance at the Independent Spirit Awards as well as with the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival 1999., In this drama, Mary Jo Walker is a single mother with a long string of bad marriages and a habit of hitting the road when things turn sour. Her 12-year-old daughter has learned to live with her mom’s nomadic ways and comfortably slips into the pattern of each new town., British stage actress and 1997 Tony Award-winner Janet McTeer stars in this affecting drama about an unlucky-in-love single mother who drags her much-wiser daughter (Kimberly Brown) all over the country in a futile search for Mr. Right. McTeer’s performance received an Oscar nomination. Gavin O’Connor, Michael J. Pollard., A road movie with a difference: this time it’s a mother and daughter team. Janet McTeer is the mother with the complicated love life, Kimberly Brown the daughter who takes to the road with her each time a relationship fails., A mother drags her 12-year-old daughter from town to town as she attempts to escape a string of failed relationships., Gavin O’Conner’s subtle portrait of a nomadic Tennessee mother and daughter sees Janet McTeer grab 12-year-old Kimberly Brown and leave her fourth husband to head for San Diego, where she falls for truck driver Gavin O’Connor. As Brown starts to finally fit in at school, can her mother avoid another abusive relationship?
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Year Released:
1999Lang:
EnglishStreaming Date :
1999-11-24Mins :
102Directed By :
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