Starting: Year 2000
Showing in: Circuit
Empire
Production Information
It
is mid - summer 1995 as a 1978 Mercedes zooms down the
highway, heading west. Inside sit 14-year-old Ann August (Natalie
Portman) and her mother Adele (Susan Sarandon).
Against her will, Ann is being moved to Beverly Hills where
Adele, stifled by small-town life in Bay City, Wisconsin,
hopes to make her colorful dreams come true. Ann is furious at
having to leave the life she loves. Adele is tired of
defending herself against her daughter's longings for home and
family, and feels that she's taking Ann away from a lifeless
future and offering her an exciting new world.
Their first stop
in Los Angeles is the Beverly Hills Hotel, the symbol of
Adele's quest; then they head off to a Travelodge motel and
what will become their real life - meals at diners and a very
ordinary one-bedroom apartment in the flats of Beverly Hills.
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Over the next two
years, Ann and Adele adjust to the reality of life in Los
Angeles.
Their relationship is close, but always volatile. Adele
remains on the outside looking in, always wanting more. Ann is
the realist, seeing things for what they are, sometimes the
mother than the daughter.
Together, mother and daughter are on a journey of
discovery -
of new possibilities,
of their respective dreams and of each other.
Anywhere But Here, a comedy - drama
about the evolving relationship between a mother and daughter
trying to make a new life for themselves in Beverly Hills, stars
Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman, with Wayne Wang
directing. Laurence Mark produces the screenplay by Alvin
Sargent, based on the acclaimed book by Mona Simpson.
Ginny Nugent is the executive producer.
Co-starring are Bonnie Bedelia (Die
Hard, Heart Like A Wheel,), Shawn Hatosy (Outside
Providence, In & Out) and Hart Bochner
(Die Hard, Rich & Famous).
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