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Oprah Winfrey produced this sensitive 2001 TV-adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's 1999
bestselling novel. Elisabeth Shue is heartbreaking as Isabelle, a repressed single mother
who lives a lonely life in a mill town. Although determined to make a better life for
teenage daughter Amy (Hanna Hall), Isabelle finds her efforts to win respect shattered by
Amy's scandalous sexual secrets. But when Isabelle is faced with the possibility of losing
her daughter, she confronts truths about her own secret past, and finds herself struggling
to hold together the only family she has left.
Filmed in Danville, Virginia & Wilmington, NC
2000; 120 min
Directed by: Lloyd Kramer
Cast: Martin Donovan (Mr. Robertson), Aubrey Dollar (Karen Keane), Hanna R. Hall
(Amy Goodrow), Karen Kirschenbauer (Maggie Dunlop), Matt Lutz (Paul Bellows), Elisabeth
Shue (Isabelle Goodrow), James Rebhorn (Avery Clark), Stephi Lineburg, Conchata Ferrell
(Bev), Viola Davis (Dottie), Marylouise Burke, Amy Wright (Rosie), Ann Dowd (Lenora)
Written by: Llyod Kramer, Elizabeth Strout
Produced by: Oprah Winfrey (exucutive), Kate Forte (executive) |
