Blue Car
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| Directed by | Karen Moncrieff |
| Produced by | Peer J. Oppenheimer Amy Sommer David Waters |
| Written by | Karen Moncrieff |
| Starring | David Strathairn Agnes Bruckner Margaret Colin Frances Fisher |
| Music by | Adam Gorgoni |
| Cinematography | Rob Sweeney |
| Editing by | Toby Yates |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
| Release date(s) | May 2, 2003 (USA) |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,000,000 |
Blue Car is a 2002 drama film directed and written by Karen Moncrieff. It was her first film that she had directed and written.
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[edit] Plot
A gifted 16-year-old named Megan living in the Dayton, Ohio area has been abandoned by her father and soon neglected by her mother. Her mother has been working hard and long lately because she needs the money to support herself and her children. The father does not pay child support often, which causes the family money problems.
Lily, Meg's younger sister, has serious mental problems; she has been starving herself to become an angel. After being checked into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, Lily kills herself by jumping out of an open window as she tries to "fly". Meg finds solace in her English teacher, who claims he is passionate about writing a novel. Her English teacher becomes a comfort and a father figure to her through Meg's troubled times, and he encourages her to join a poetry contest.
A closer sexual relationship develops between Meg and her teacher until she finally allows him to have sex with her. After this, Meg, looking through material on the top of a desk, realizes that her teacher has not written a novel, but had told that story to impress her. The movie is melancholy. Meg decides to live with her father, and she enters his blue car, still uncertain about her future.
[edit] Cast
- Agnes Bruckner as Megan Denning.
- David Strathairn as Auster, her English teacher.
- Margaret Colin ... Diane
- Frances Fisher ... Delia
- A.J. Buckley ... Pat
- Regan Arnold ... Lily
- Sarah Buehler ... Georgia
- Dustin Sterling ... Rob
- Mike Ward ... Dad
- Wayne Armstrong ... Don
[edit] DVD release
Blue Car was released on DVD on October 14, 2003 in the United States and Canada.
