Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
- Harm to children
- Sexual violence
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Kristen StewartMallory
- James GandolfiniDoug Riley
- Melissa LeoLois Riley
- Joe ChrestJerry
- Ally SheedyHarriet
- Eisa DavisVivian
- Lance E. NicholsHamilton 'Ham' Watkins
- Tiffany CotyTara
- Peggy Walton-WalkerBrenda
- Sharon LandrySharon
Crew
- Jake ScottDirector
- Ken HixonWriter
- Christopher SoosDirector of Photography
- Marc StreitenfeldOriginal Music Composer
- Nicolas GasterEditor
- Giovanni AgnelliProducer
- Scott BloomProducer
- Michael CostiganProducer
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