A drama about small town life in Minnesota that celebrates community spirit and individual perseverance in the face of trouble. Pamela Reed (who played Arnold Schwarzenegger's partner in Kindergarten Cop) is excellent in the pivotal role of Mary, an attractive and intellectual mother of three who's separated from her husband. She only begins to become aware of her own suppressed loneliness when she begins to research the life of an eccentric old widow who dies alone at her dilapidated farm. The various comings and goings of the eccentric roster of citizens could have become pure soap opera in the wrong hands but the film transceneds this through excellent performances matched by a script that knows what makes its characters really tick.


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