Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/29/2010(USA)
Release Date: 02/01/2011
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 111 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Profanity, Drug Content
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures
Their relationship steadily deteriorating in the eight years following their daughter's untimely death, a married couple unable to break the cycle of grief gets a second shot at love thanks to a scrappy, underage prostitute in this
family drama starring
James Gandolfini,
Melissa Leo, and
Kristen Stewart. Ever since the death of their daughter
Emily,
Doug (
Gandolfini) and
Lois Riley (
Leo) have been drifting apart. As
Lois wrestles with a suffocating sense of guilt over her daughter's death,
Doug copes by entering into an affair with
Vivian, a local waitress. Lately,
Lois hasn't even been able to muster the courage to venture outside, summoning hairdressers to her home in order to maintain appearances and communicating with few people other than her sister
Harriet and the local pastor. When
Vivian dies and
Doug finds himself in a Baton Rouge strip club during a business trip, he realizes he's come to a dangerous crossroads in life. Turning down an offer for a private dance by 16-year-old stripper
Mallory,
Doug instead accompanies the girl home and makes a most unusual proposition: if
Mallory will allow him to stay in her run-down apartment long enough to straighten himself out, he will pay her $100 a day for her trouble. For
Mallory, who isn't used to getting money for nothing, it seems like a great deal. She accepts, and
Doug phones
Lois to tell her he won't be coming home. As time passes,
Doug and
Mallory settle into an unconventional kind of domesticity. Meanwhile, back home,
Lois realizes that she'll have to act fast in order to save her marriage, even if that means venturing well outside her comfort zone for the first time in nearly a decade. Most days she can't even make it to the mailbox, but after a couple attempts,
Lois manages to start up her car and get on the freeway heading south. When
Lois arrives in Louisiana and discovers that her husband is living with a foul-mouthed, underage hooker, she is at first horrified. Like
Doug before her, however,
Lois quickly warms to
Mallory, due in part to her striking similarities to
Emily. Before long,
Lois, too, has moved in, and the three form something of an unconventional family. But when
Lois attempts to steer
Mallory from the path of self-destruction, the young girl bristles. Later,
Mallory is hospitalized after being badly beaten by a client, and
Doug and
Lois rush to be by her side. Could this be the thing that pulls them back together? When
Lois admits to
Doug how their daughter really died, his kind understanding gives hope for a new beginning.
~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
