Genre: Drama, Prison, Marriage, Tragedy, Melodrama, Courtroom, School / Campus
Tagline: A story about the amazing places life can take you.
Plot: As a mother who’s trying to cope with raising two little daughters, her part-time job as a school nurse, and helping her husband run their "working" farm, Alice Goodwin (SIGOURNEY WEAVER) has an unflappable, almost whimsical attitude towards the complexities of life. But her outspoken "mouth"— reflecting her droll perspective on human nature— is often wrongly misinterpreted by the simple folk in the rural Wisconsin town where they live. As relative "newcomers," the townsfolk treat Alice and her husband, Howard (DAVID STRATHAIRN) as outsiders anyway, and their only real friends are another young couple, Dan and Theresa Collins (JULIANNE MOORE), who also have two little girls. Alice and Theresa have become best friends and often babysit each other’s children. One morning, while babysitting for Theresa’s children, as well as her own—having promised to take them swimming in the pond on the farm—Alice is momentarily distracted as she searches for her bathing suit. A few minutes later, she is shocked and horrified to find Theresa’s two-year-old daughter Lizzy floating face-down in the pond. Although Alice quickly pulls Lizzy out of the water and immediately gives her CPR, the child remains comatose and, a few days later, she dies. Theresa’s pain and loss is immeasurable, and so is
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| Peter Hedges
About a Boy, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Pieces of April |
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 | Arliss Howard
Full Metal Jacket, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Birth |
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 | Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cruel Intentions, 2 Days in the Valley |
 | Ron Lea
The Recruit, A Home at the End of the World, Criminal Law |
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| Music By |
Pat Metheny
The Falcon and the Snowman, Twice in a Lifetime, Amazing Stories |
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