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Director:
Michael Miner
Writer:
Tasca Shadix (written by)
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Release Date:
1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Awards:
4 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Amazing movie.... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Mary Stuart Masterson ... Penny McGuire

Jena Malone ... Mary McGuire

Karl Geary ... Kristjan

Delroy Lindo ... Professor
Monica Hart ... News Anchor

D.B. Sweeney ... Prisoner
Gina Nagy ... Prisoner's Wife
Tina Marie Goff ... Clinic Doctor
Sean G. Griffin ... Store Owner (as Seán G. Griffin)
John Considine ... Lost John

Bob Morrisey ... Silhouetted John
Kevin Phillip ... Peter
Ron Otis ... Astronaut

William Salyers ... Hospital Doctor
Leslie Do Qui ... Internist (as Leslie Doqui)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
111 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Singapore:PG
Filming Locations:
Seattle, Washington, USA

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Mary: Do you know that I've never been on a date before?
Kristjan: No, there should be many boys.
Mary: Would you go on a date with me? I mean if I was older...
Kristjan: I will go on a date with you right now.
Penny: Really? Where will you take her?
Kristjan: To the cinema?
Penny: No! Pretend you've never seen her before. You first see her at a society ball and she's leaning against the, no... pining by a clear silvery fountain. What makes you wanna talk to her?
Kristjan: Oh, I would come to her because she's lovely and how do you say um, mysterious.
Mary: Oh no, you should never say that. American girls don't like that. It's considered an insult if you call them mysterious.
Kristjan: Enough society lady. We meet at a simple place, we meet on the bus and you're reading a book and I sit beside you so that you will speak to me and I wait and I wait and you never speak to me. Then I say, "what is your name?"
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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Amazing movie...., 28 June 2003
Author: skitZZu_90 from Sweden

Not many movies makes me cry, this one did. Jena Malone is just so amazing in this film, as always ;-) There's nothing bad with this movie, the actors are superbr, the script & plot is o WOW, the story...yeah there's just so much that I love about it and NOTHING that I don't like. I'm going to see another Jena Malone movie right now ;-)

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