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Juliette Lewis | ... | ||
Diane Keaton | ... | ||
Tom Skerritt | ... | ||
Giovanni Ribisi | ... | ||
Poppy Montgomery | ... |
Caroline
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Sarah Paulson | ... |
Heather
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Linda Thorson | ... |
Drew
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Joe Flanigan | ... |
Jeff
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Juliet Mills | ... | ||
Tracy Reiner | ... |
Michelle
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Hope Alexander-Willis | ... |
Marge
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Harvey Miller | ... |
Dr. Johnson
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Hector Elizondo | ... | ||
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Almayvonne | ... |
Rachel - Tech School
(as Alma Yvonne)
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Marvin Braverman | ... |
Uncle Sam Teacher - Tech School
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When Carla Tate, now a young woman, is 'graduated' out of the training school where she has resided for many years because she is mentally challenged, her hope is that she will be accepted for all that she can now do for herself. But Carla's family is wealthy which permits her mother, already blinded to her daughter's rather high-functioning abilities, to try and provide for Carla beyond her needs or desires, bringing forth the inevitable confrontations... for what Carla may lack in mental ability she certainly makes up for in her insistence on being independent, even to living in her own apartment. But if this isn't enough, into the mix comes a young man, equally challenged mentally, who moves Carla beyond anyone's control... Written by BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>
I am not a big movie crybaby kind of person, but this movie really had me going! Not that it was sad, but poignant. I was fully captivated by the complex characters. No one was "good" or "bad," they were all just trying to find their ways through their lives the best they could. It was hard to know how they would react in each situation because they were more true-to-life than we are used to. I haven't been this emotionally involved in a movie for a long time.