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Ellen Foster (1997) (TV)
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14 December 1997 (USA)
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After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home. | add synopsis
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
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A great and moving performance
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Julie Harris | ... | Leonora Nelson |
 | Jena Malone | ... | Ellen Foster |
 | Ted Levine | ... | Bill Hammond |
 | Glynnis O'Connor | ... | Charlotte Nelson Hammond |
 | Debra Monk | ... | Aunt Nadine |
 | Barbara Garrick | ... | Aunt Betsy |
| Kate Burton | ... | Abigail |
| Zeljko Ivanek | ... | Chief Inspector |
| Lynne Moody | ... | Mrs. Douglas |
 | Bill Nunn | ... | Mr. Douglas |
 | Dick O'Neill | ||
 | Amanda Peet | ... | Julia Hobbs |
 | Timothy Olyphant | ... | Roy Hobbs |
 | Kimberly J. Brown | ... | Dora |
| Allison Jones | ... | Starletta Douglas |
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Rated PG-13 for some abusive treatment of a child.
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Israel:94 min | USA:120 min (including commercials)
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Remember (Christmas)
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Ellen Foster is the story of a 10 year old girl desperately searching for a true family to call her own. When her mother dies she is left with her father until taken away when the school learns he hits her. She stays with a teacher who volunteers to take her in and who gives her a taste of what a happy family could be like. This ends when her harridan of a grandmother lies in court by telling the judge that she wants custody. Turns out she just wants cheap slave labor, and she goes so far as to tell Ellen that she intends on making her pay for the death of her mother, though Ellen had nothing to do with anything that the father did to her. Soon the grandmother has a stroke and then dies. She is taken in by one of her aunts who is nicer than the grandmother but only on the surface. Ellen's cousin despises her and this situation soon leads to a fight that has Ellen leaving the house on Christmas Day to go to The Foster house. She thinks that the home is a family named Foster, but it is a woman who takes in girls that are unwanted or orphaned. Jena Malone as in her previous film, Bastard Out of Carolina, stars as the abused child, but rather than seem like the pedestrian movie of the week, it is a standout performance. She may still be considered a child actress, but it is very hard not to notice that she's got some great acting chops.