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Running Time 1 hour, 40 minutes
Country UK, USA
Studio Angelika Films, Film Four International, Merchant-Ivory Productions
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Other Titles • The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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Genre: Drama, Revenge, Betrayal, Love, Melodrama
Plot: Miss Amelia runs a general store in a small Southern town during the 1930s. One day, into her solitary existence, steps a hunchbacked dwarf who claims to be her Cousin Lymon. Miss Amelia is fascinated by the stranger and the two strike up an unusual relationship. Lymon soon convinces Miss Amelia to transform her shop into a cafe. Things seem to be going just fine -- until Marvin Macy, the man Miss Amelia once married and then spurned, is released from prison and drops in for a visit...
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| Directed by |
Simon Callow
Shakespeare in Love, Amadeus, The Phantom of the Opera |
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