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Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some disturbing thematic material.

Runtime: 84 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:May 1, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: There are moments frozen under glass... Inga (Marcia Gay Harden) is a poet and mother to a young daughter (Eulala Scheel, Ms. Harden's real life daughter). Inga is drawn to a house that reminds... There are moments frozen under glass...

Inga (Marcia Gay Harden) is a poet and mother to a young daughter (Eulala Scheel, Ms. Harden's real life daughter). Inga is drawn to a house that reminds her of her childhood home, and here she realizes that many things in her life are coming full circle.

She wants to buy and restore an old house but her distant husband Hermann (Michael Gaston) sees little value in old houses or many of the things Inga loves and writes about. Inga's crumbling marriage is in stark contrast to her closeness with her 8-year-old daughter with whom she shares her hopes, fears and inner- most thoughts. By day their relationship seems magical, full of cloud watching, kite flying and lazy summer drives. But at night Inga is troubled by her marriage, it's lack of intimacy and her fears of her own mortality.

Now facing recent breast cancer Inga is using alcohol in much the same way as her mother's use of morphine to control her pain. Like many artists Inga's struggle is reflected in her poems, which she writes on scraps of paper and then discards. But it is in her own poems that she hears the echo of what her mother must have gone through and it is this revelation that allows Inga to transform. --© Monterey Media [More]

Starring: Marcia Gay Harden, Eulala Scheel, Marian Seldes, Michael Gaston

Starring: Marcia Gay Harden, Eulala Scheel, Marian Seldes, Michael Gaston

Director: Mary Haverstick

Director: Mary Haverstick
Producer: Mary Haverstick, Michele Mercure
Composer: Michele Mercure
Studio: Monterrey Media

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The intimacy between Harden's poetess mother and her wistful and willful daughter is palpable and the film's strongest moments owe much to their chemistry.

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An absorbing, inspirational and often heartwarming drama with radiant, captivating performances by Marcia Gay Harden and her real-life daughter, Eulala Scheel.

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Using cinema as self-therapy might be a selfish way to treat audiences, but Harden and Scheel's chemistry makes the mother-daughter dynamic universal.

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An ironically titled, simultaneously lyrical and brutal window into cancer as a complex life altering experience, and the ordeal, not of facing death, but rather confronting life as a disfigured and scorned cancer survivor.

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