This parable about a 16 year old trainee social worker at a centre for homeless girls is almost as naive as its central character, a poor little rich girl played with some appeal by Mary Stuart Masterson. Overlong and with a script that doesn't cut deep enough, it's nonetheless sufficiently involving to make you want to learn a bit more about the ultimate fates of its characters. James Earl Jones gives a characteristically highly-charged performance as the centre's director - one of the few characters that isn't overdrawn - and Geraldine Page does what she can with the cameo role of the heroine's gran.


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