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Directed by Nancy Savoca • 1982 • United States
Starring Marianne Leone Cooper, Jo Deodato Clark, Carla Wynn
With her very first short film, made while she was a student at NYU, director Nancy Savoca explores what would become a hallmark of her work—the push-pull between generations—through an affecting, vividly naturalistic portrait of a struggling New York City mother (Marianne Leone Cooper) whose desire for a divorce bumps up against her family’s traditional Catholic values.
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