About 1 hour and 7 minutes into this movie I realized that the story is totally joyless. By that I mean, even when things are going bad in real life, over a series of days and weeks there are a few funny or joyous things that happen anyway. But this movie is joyless. It is a good story, and has a very realistic feel to much of it, except for the non-stop somberness.
This is mainly the Kyra Sedgwick show, she produces and stars as Delia Byrd, who had abandoned her abusive husband and two small girls some 12 to 14 years earlier in rural Georgia, to travel and sing with a band. Now, in LA with another young daughter about 12, she decides to go back to Georgia and try to make things right. A very difficult task.
SPOILERS. Her real life husband Kevin Bacon plays the rock star that she ran off with, he gets killed at the beginning in a car accident, this is the spark to head back home. She is not well received by the townspeople nor her teen daughters, one which has become a fanatic Christian and the other runs around with guys all night. But Delia's abusive husband (Aidan Quinn) is very sick, dying, she moves into his house and has the daughters join them, the husband dies, Delia makes the first steps at reconciliation with her daughters as the movie ends.
Sherilyn Fenn adds a bit of joy and a few smiles as old friend M.T. who now is a mechanic. Old Brit Jackie Burroughs, looking a lot like Lyle Lovett, plays the mean old Grandma Windsor who had been keeping Delia's daughters and had turned them against mom.
This is mainly the Kyra Sedgwick show, she produces and stars as Delia Byrd, who had abandoned her abusive husband and two small girls some 12 to 14 years earlier in rural Georgia, to travel and sing with a band. Now, in LA with another young daughter about 12, she decides to go back to Georgia and try to make things right. A very difficult task.
SPOILERS. Her real life husband Kevin Bacon plays the rock star that she ran off with, he gets killed at the beginning in a car accident, this is the spark to head back home. She is not well received by the townspeople nor her teen daughters, one which has become a fanatic Christian and the other runs around with guys all night. But Delia's abusive husband (Aidan Quinn) is very sick, dying, she moves into his house and has the daughters join them, the husband dies, Delia makes the first steps at reconciliation with her daughters as the movie ends.
Sherilyn Fenn adds a bit of joy and a few smiles as old friend M.T. who now is a mechanic. Old Brit Jackie Burroughs, looking a lot like Lyle Lovett, plays the mean old Grandma Windsor who had been keeping Delia's daughters and had turned them against mom.