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6.4/10   234 votes
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Director:
Doug Sadler
Writer:
Doug Sadler (writer)
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Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her. | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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Great character development more

Cast

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Bodine Alexander ... Mike's Girl
Terry Alston ... Seafood Buyer

Jane Beard ... Receptionist
Jim Chance ... Retiree
Charles H. Clyburn ... Hayward
Tara Devon Gallagher ... Emma Tyler
Kate Goehring ... Shellie

Don Harvey ... Russell

Shawn Hatosy ... Clyde Tyler
Irving Jacobs ... Mr. Brinkman
Cherry Jones ... Julia Tyler

Robert Knott ... Will Tyler

Michael Mosley ... Mike Tyler
Sarah Paulson ... Merrill
Sarah Stusek ... Bully Girl
Patrick Tovatt ... Sonny
Mary Ann Walsh ... Airport patron
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Additional Details

Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:Unrated
Filming Locations:
Bozman, Maryland, USA more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Great character development, 2 November 2005
10/10
Author: alishaduckworth from United States

Finally, a movie that has succeeded in properly portraying the small-town working class family. For such a short film, all the major characters are amazingly complex, as they captivate the audience with powerful transitions wrought by financial and social crises. Director Doug Sadler has extracted some of the best acting out of some of Hollywood's most underutilized talent: Cherry Jones playing Julia Tyler, the strong, persevere-at-all-costs mother; Robert Knott playing Will Tyler, the cash-strapped father who loves his family, but who falls apart and seeks escape when his plans for providing for his family fail; Sarah Paulson playing Merrill, a young woman with psychological problems rooted in her childhood; and new-to-Hollywood child actress Tara Devon Gallagher playing 11-year-old Emma Tyler, whose sudden need for a medical procedure becomes the source of the crises and redemption, and through whose both simple and profound perspective the beautiful story is narrated.

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