Screened at the Hollywood International Film Festival
The suds are piled high in "Finding Home", a soggy melodrama from Clear Star Pictures about a young woman who takes a trip back to her childhood home in the hope of breaking the hold that her troubling past continues to have on her -- or something like that.
Directed with aching purpose by Lawrence David Foldes from a script he wrote with Grafton S. Harper, the lavish-looking but hackneyed memory play is small-screen fodder at best, but even in that medium there's still the matter of an all-too-deliberate two-hour running time.
Wide-eyed Lisa Brenner is the traveler in question -- a New York exec who's in mid-affair with her smarmy boss (Johnny Messner) when she gets the call that her estranged grandmother (Louise Fletcher in flashbacks) has died.
So Lisa returns to the idyllic bed-and-breakfast situated off the scenic coast of Maine where she grew up until she was abruptly whisked away by her cold, cold mother (Jeannetta Arnette).
Welcomed with open arms by her grandma's warm and nurturing best friend (Genevieve Bujold), Lisa soon discovers that every little sound or object triggers a flood of long-suppressed memories that will ultimately bring her face to face with some life-changing truths.
While Foldes and Harper are busy dredging "On Golden Pond" and "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," cinematographer Jeffrey Seckendorf lays on the handsome visual appeal, but when combined with the wispy narration and all those digital collage-filled flashbacks, it ultimately plays like overworked Sirk.
The suds are piled high in "Finding Home", a soggy melodrama from Clear Star Pictures about a young woman who takes a trip back to her childhood home in the hope of breaking the hold that her troubling past continues to have on her -- or something like that.
Directed with aching purpose by Lawrence David Foldes from a script he wrote with Grafton S. Harper, the lavish-looking but hackneyed memory play is small-screen fodder at best, but even in that medium there's still the matter of an all-too-deliberate two-hour running time.
Wide-eyed Lisa Brenner is the traveler in question -- a New York exec who's in mid-affair with her smarmy boss (Johnny Messner) when she gets the call that her estranged grandmother (Louise Fletcher in flashbacks) has died.
So Lisa returns to the idyllic bed-and-breakfast situated off the scenic coast of Maine where she grew up until she was abruptly whisked away by her cold, cold mother (Jeannetta Arnette).
Welcomed with open arms by her grandma's warm and nurturing best friend (Genevieve Bujold), Lisa soon discovers that every little sound or object triggers a flood of long-suppressed memories that will ultimately bring her face to face with some life-changing truths.
While Foldes and Harper are busy dredging "On Golden Pond" and "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," cinematographer Jeffrey Seckendorf lays on the handsome visual appeal, but when combined with the wispy narration and all those digital collage-filled flashbacks, it ultimately plays like overworked Sirk.
Screened at the Hollywood International Film Festival
The suds are piled high in "Finding Home", a soggy melodrama from Clear Star Pictures about a young woman who takes a trip back to her childhood home in the hope of breaking the hold that her troubling past continues to have on her -- or something like that.
Directed with aching purpose by Lawrence David Foldes from a script he wrote with Grafton S. Harper, the lavish-looking but hackneyed memory play is small-screen fodder at best, but even in that medium there's still the matter of an all-too-deliberate two-hour running time.
Wide-eyed Lisa Brenner is the traveler in question -- a New York exec who's in mid-affair with her smarmy boss (Johnny Messner) when she gets the call that her estranged grandmother (Louise Fletcher in flashbacks) has died.
So Lisa returns to the idyllic bed-and-breakfast situated off the scenic coast of Maine where she grew up until she was abruptly whisked away by her cold, cold mother (Jeannetta Arnette).
Welcomed with open arms by her grandma's warm and nurturing best friend (Genevieve Bujold), Lisa soon discovers that every little sound or object triggers a flood of long-suppressed memories that will ultimately bring her face to face with some life-changing truths.
While Foldes and Harper are busy dredging "On Golden Pond" and "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," cinematographer Jeffrey Seckendorf lays on the handsome visual appeal, but when combined with the wispy narration and all those digital collage-filled flashbacks, it ultimately plays like overworked Sirk.
The suds are piled high in "Finding Home", a soggy melodrama from Clear Star Pictures about a young woman who takes a trip back to her childhood home in the hope of breaking the hold that her troubling past continues to have on her -- or something like that.
Directed with aching purpose by Lawrence David Foldes from a script he wrote with Grafton S. Harper, the lavish-looking but hackneyed memory play is small-screen fodder at best, but even in that medium there's still the matter of an all-too-deliberate two-hour running time.
Wide-eyed Lisa Brenner is the traveler in question -- a New York exec who's in mid-affair with her smarmy boss (Johnny Messner) when she gets the call that her estranged grandmother (Louise Fletcher in flashbacks) has died.
So Lisa returns to the idyllic bed-and-breakfast situated off the scenic coast of Maine where she grew up until she was abruptly whisked away by her cold, cold mother (Jeannetta Arnette).
Welcomed with open arms by her grandma's warm and nurturing best friend (Genevieve Bujold), Lisa soon discovers that every little sound or object triggers a flood of long-suppressed memories that will ultimately bring her face to face with some life-changing truths.
While Foldes and Harper are busy dredging "On Golden Pond" and "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," cinematographer Jeffrey Seckendorf lays on the handsome visual appeal, but when combined with the wispy narration and all those digital collage-filled flashbacks, it ultimately plays like overworked Sirk.
- 10/22/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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