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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group
Release Date: Oct 19, 2001
Running Time: 132 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
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After failing to get into college, Beverly Donofrio loses interest in everything but riding around town in cars, drinking, smoking and rebelling against authority. After becoming pregnant, marrying, then divorcing, she must cope with being a teenage single parent. She finally ends up at an elite New England university where she tries to reach a balance between her mistakes and her goals.
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Beverly Donofrio
Ray Hasek
Fay Forrester
Jason Donofrio
Mrs Donofrio
Mr Donofrio
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Bobby
Lizard
Amelia
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October 24, 2001
As a boy-crazy teen mom forced to grow up along with her son, who is twenty when she's thirty-five, Drew Barrymore bites into a role that shouts, "Look, Oscar, I'm acting!" Who better than this wild child, with the emotional scars to prove it, to give screen life to the blunt, ruefully funny odyssey laid out by Beverly Donofrio in her 1990 memoir about a bad girl on the make for an education and maturity? Barrymore, 26, runs with the role, until the script by Morgan Upton Ward slams her into a…
Based on the memoirs of Beverly D'Onofrio, the story follows the life of one girl who has a baby at 15 and tries everything in her power to make her life---and her son's---a better one. Let the sappiness, I mean happiness, begin. Story Meet Beverly D'Onofrio (Drew Barrymore), a woman on her way to getting her first book published. She is driving with her grown son, Jason (Adam Garcia), back to her hometown in Connecticut for the first time in many years. Together, they begin discussing Beverly's… |
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