A traumatic event sends a musician (Sedgwick) back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abusive ex-husband (Quinn), from whom she fled years ago.
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Aidan Quinn, Sherilyn Fenn, Kevin Bacon.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367587/
Watched on AmazonPrime.
1 song in the Soundtracks. No idea if it was performed more than once, or if other songs were in the film. Very little performing occurred.
An unpleasant tale conveyed at slow pace. Painful subject matter doled out painfully.
I don't remember Sherilyn Fenn in the film at all.
KB dies at the wheel of his Porsche with a gf pawing him. Common law wife KS (except she was still married to AQ) decides to go back "home" to reclaim the daughters she abandoned years ago with KB. We finally learn that she left because AQ tried to kill her.
When she gets home, she finds her daughters living not with their father but with an old woman (acquaintance, I think), and that AQ is dying and wants to stay at his home. So he gives KS official custody of the girls (now in hs but it's summer), and she tends to him while trying to repair her relationship with their 2 daughters, and the one from KB whom she brought along.
He dies. The End.
About the only good I saw coming out of their ordeal was the youngest daughter developed a little empathy.
Avoid.
BTW, I have no idea how the title relates to the story.
Rated 5.7 (557)
distr. Showtime, dir. Cholodenko; 5
