February 11, 2009

movie: digging to china (1998)

Digging to China

Director: Timothy Hutton
Year: 1998
Character: Harriet Frankovitz
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson, Marian Seldes.

Harriet, a ten-year old girl, lives together with her big sister and her alcoholic mother out in the countryside. The family runs a motel. Harriet is different from the others, as she owns a great creativity and has nobody to play with. Her infinite world exists only in her mind. One day, Ricky comes along. He is a grown-up, but retarded son of an elderly lady. Soon, Harriet and Ricky share their experiences of life from a different point of view and become close friends. But his mother still plans to give Ricky away into professional care in a home, because she won't live forever to be there for him.


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