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…