The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom Summary
It's 1976, and Elizabeth is just your average suburban eleven-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed "truth", to which she's been clinging, and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who's searching for a mother, both of them really searching for themselves. This movie is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female, coming-of-age story that explores the tension between creating identity, and finding it within.
Written by
Palomar
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom Cast
- Julia Sarah Stone
- Rebecca Windheim
- Rebecca Croll
- Macha Grenon
- Trevor Hayes
- Paula Costain
- Gil Bellows
- Luca Palladini
- Brian Wrench
- Emma Elle Paterson
- Léa Roy
- Pauline Little
- Andrew Peplowski
- Chantele Francis
- Keenan Lehmann