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Off the Map (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Campbell Scott

Written By:
Joan Ackermann

Actors:
Amy Brenneman ..... Adult Bo
Valentina de Angelis ..... Young Bo
Joan Allen ..... Arlene
Sam Elliott ..... Charley
J.K. Simmons ..... George
Boots Southern ..... Rusty
J.D. Garfield ..... Romero
Jim True-Frost ..... William Gibbs
Matthew E. Montoya ..... Store Clerk
Kathy Griego ..... Consuela
William Hart McNicholas ..... Interpreter
Timothy Martinez ..... Priest
J.D. Hawkins ..... Jack
Kevin Skousen ..... Don

Synopsis:

Campbell Scott directed this offbeat comedy drama about a free-thinking family who find themselves confronted by the more regimented outside world. Bo Groden (Valentina d'Angelis) is an 11-year-old girl growing up as part of a decidedly eccentric family in a small town in New Mexico. Bo's father, Charley (Sam Elliott), has fallen into a deep depression for reasons no one can understand, while her mother, Arlene (Joan Allen), holds the household together, raising most of their food in her vegetable garden, which she prefers to tend in the nude. Bo, meanwhile, satisfies her sweet tooth by writing candy companies claiming to have had problems with their products, which usually results in a box of fresh goodies. While the Grodens get by through living within simple means, one day an Internal Revenue Agent appears at their door, wanting to know why the family hasn't paid income tax for several years -- and not believing there has been no appreciable income for so many years. Off the Map was screened in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.

Bo ( d'Angelis) is a young girl who lives with her slightly hippie mom and dad in an extremely rural area of New Mexico. The film takes places in the 1960s but the family has no electricity and uses an outhouse to take care of business. Bo is an extremely bright young girl and very well read, thus she yearns for a life outside of New Mexico. If there were any other people around, Bo would be embarrassed of her life and her parents. What starts as a somewhat standard tale of youth wanting more from life turns magical as we are slowly drawn into the simplistic life shared by the family, but there's another layer involved. Bo's dad (Elliott) is severely depressed, so much so he just starts crying for no reason and wiles away the days drinking water to refuel the tear ducts. Sam Elliott is amazingly understated as her dad as he mopes around the house. However, everything changes when a man (True) arrives to audit the family…even though they only made $1500.00 that last year. The tax man, like the viewers of this film, is soon sucked into this magical world and a film of quiet beauty, striking comedy and touching truths unfolds.

An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 03 September, 2013.

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