Drawn here from Ulee's Gold. This is a now very rare film to find and only available in a crop of its original 16:9 ratio.
Ashley Judd is delightful as the lost young woman who takes a job in a gift shop in Northern Florida and recounts her reactions with various people. (Loved the way she follows her neighbour - who she has never spoken to - out on the pier where he's fishing, but still never manages to connect with him. And the warmth of the two women she meets in the laundry.)
Todd Field is the slightly weird boyfriend, Bentley Mitchum the abusive one (he's Chris Mitchum's son). Allison Dean her colleague / friend, Dorothy Lyman her employer, Betsy Douds.
The book he lends her opening on Catherine Morland is 'Northanger Abbey' and the film is allegedly loosely based on Jane Austen's novel. (Bit if a stretch I would have thought.) Out of season desolate Florida well caught.
Won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Charles Engstrom wrote the music. Alex Vlacos photographed.
I liked it. It's very female-centric. Judd is the whole show - she carries the film well. Has been working steadily but didn't really hit the big time... though she is in Heat, which I've still not seen.
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