![]() ![]() Soon Astrid's dressing cheaply and sporting a crucifix, which mama mocks during a prison visit. Ingrid's dragged from her home by police, Astrid's picked up by children's services, then sees her mother sentenced to life in prison - whoa! What happened and how did it happen so fast? (We'll learn in flashbacks, but the transitions are unrealistic and the pre-prison mother-daughter relationship is mostly told via Lohman's clipped narration.)įirst stop is born again, ex-stripper Starr (Robin Wright Penn) who takes in foster kids for the extra income and God points. ![]() Brown," in a role that barely allows us to even see his face). We're given the hint of Ingrid playing hard to get, then capitulating to Barry (Billy Connolly, "Mrs. We meet Ingrid when her daughter finds her sitting on the edge of a roof, insisting Astrid join her. ![]() The major points are made, but one's never given enough time to respond or know the characters to become emotionally involved. Janet Fitch's novel became a phenomenon after it became an Oprah book club choice, but the richly textured, densely characterized novel is given the Cliff Notes treatment by screenwriter Mary Agnes Donoghue ("Beaches"). ![]()
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