Janie Jones, wearing its indie colours for all to see, finds Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Signs) being handed over to her utterly unaware and unprepared dad (Alessandro Nivola – Jurassic Park III, Face/Off) by her mum, Elizabeth Shue. When Shue goes into rehab, Breslin has nowhere to go and so travels with her dad’s band.
You can kind of guess the rest from there. Life lessons learned, connections made, issues brought to the surface and confronted, unexpected talent discovered and hurts mended. That’s not to say that it looks terrible, far from it. Breslin and Nivola are quietly affecting presences and the trailer below testifies, even if the poster looks awfully twee. Peter Stormare and Frank Whaley flesh out the cast.
This will be out in a few weeks’ time, though expect it to struggle to find much of a theatrical audience here in the UK. Which is a shame, for what looks like a fairly strong piece.
Source: Coming Soon.
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