Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist) headlines this critically praised drama about a young woman, just out of prison, who finds spiritual redemption working at a cafe in Maine.Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist) headlines this critically praised drama about a young woman, just out of prison, who finds spiritual redemption working at a cafe in Maine.Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist) headlines this critically praised drama about a young woman, just out of prison, who finds spiritual redemption working at a cafe in Maine.
- Awards
- 3 wins
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- TriviaAn early Christian film made by The Sacred Heart League, Inc. to raise money for Auto Immune Disease research and treatment.
- GoofsPercy announces to a group of customers that she served time in prison for manslaughter but Naham has to call the county court to find out what she was convicted for. It's not plausible that the whole town, including Percy, wouldn't know about it after Percy's confession.
- Quotes
Nahum Goddard: Where do you come from, Percy?
Percy: Ohio.
Nahum Goddard: Ohio, huh. I had some clients from Ohio once. Didn't sound like you do.
Percy: Well I wouldn't mind coming from someplace else, if that doesn't suit you.
- SoundtracksFalling Sky
Performed by Martin Zellar
Written by Martin Zellar
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It appears this is the first film for the director. Lee David Zlotoff is a product of television, as far as I've learned. Not having seen anything he has created before, I can only compare this film to similar fare one sees in the "movie-of-the-week" film made for that medium.
I have no way of knowing if the accents these actors speak are really from Maine, or from the South, as I have never met any one from that state where the action takes place. That said, the film will not disappoint because it tells a good story. It's easy to like, although it is predictable.
Young Percy Talbot can't shake her past. Instead of fleeing to a big city and getting lost there, she selects the small town of Gilead in rural Maine. Her choice of locales will proves Percy wrong. In the town, she manages to touch the lives of a lot of the local folk, who in return, show her kindness, after an initial rejection.
Allison Elliott was effective as the young woman. Ellen Burstyn, as Hannah, is quite good. Marcia Gay Harden underplays Shelby, the woman who gains Percy's trust. Will Patton is the only one that has nothing to do in the film.
- jotix100
- Jun 9, 2004
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Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $12,658,486
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $150,049
- Aug 25, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $12,658,486
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1