Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 11/01/2002(USA
Release Date: 06/17/2003
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD
Run Time: 102 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Hart Sharp Video
Taking home both the audience prize for Best Director as well as the critics' prize for Best Film, writer-director
Hilary Birmingham was the toast of the 2000 L.A. Independent Film Festival with this slice-of-life drama about a pair of motherless young men and their relationships with women. Tully Jr. (
Anson Mount) and Earl (
Glenn Fitzgerald) live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an off-again, on-again relationship with April (
Catherine Kellner), a stripper in town. When their childhood friend Ella (
Julianne Nicholson) returns to town to start a veterinary practice, however, Tully falls for her -- although the townsfolk have their doubts that he could ever commit to one woman. Birmingham based her film on a short story by author
Tom McNeal; before
Tully, the director cut her teeth producing PBS documentaries.
Tully would go on to show at festivals in Toronto, Canada, and Melbourne, Australia.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
;)
