Style: Drama
Director: Jon Gunn
Starring: Hilary Swank, Alan Ritchson, Nancy Travis
Operating Time: 118 minutes
Synopsis: The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, within the Nineties. Sharon (Hilary Swank) is a middle-aged hard-drinking hairdresser, and thru the media she learns about roofer Ed (Alan Ritchson), who’s struggling to lift his two daughters after the dying of his spouse. His 5 year-old youthful daughter Ashley suffers from a uncommon illness and desires a liver transplant, and the medical payments are mounting. Sharon decides to assist, beginning with a modest fundraising marketing campaign, however her personal demons threaten to get in the way in which.
What Works Properly: Based mostly on precise occasions (with some gildings), that is an uplifting drama about one lady reaching out, and a neighborhood rallying to assist a household in want. The story carries the inherent feelings of profound loss, battle towards a uncommon illness, and a crushing monetary burden, however the characters propel the narrative. Hilary Swank finds all of the human corners beneath Sharon’s brassy exterior as she embraces a trigger as an alterative to drowning her failures in alcohol, and Alan Ritchson brings stoic delight to the first rate working man reluctant to just accept exterior assist. The religion parts are current however delicate.
What Does Not Work As Properly: The sentimentality dial is often turned to eleven, and the climax piles on the (generally literal) obstacles on the way in which to the pre-ordained ending.
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