Drama, Comedy, Romance
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of Hollywood success, Ann grows frustrated with her mother's irresponsible and impulsive ways.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
A Serious Man
Autumn Sonata
Frailty
The Burning Plain
No Ball Games
Yeh Ballet
Holiday at the Seaside
STRAW
The Nines
Sherrybaby
The Princess Bride
The Mothman Prophecies
My Dead Friend Zoe
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Jamon Jamon
Psychosis in Stockholm
The Nightman
Vanilla Sky
Or (My Treasure)
Gypsy
SIMILAR MOVIES
A Serious Man
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2009
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.Autumn Sonata
IMDB 8 | Oct , 1978
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.Frailty
IMDB 7 | Apr , 2002
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."The Burning Plain
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2008
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?No Ball Games
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2023
In this cyclical fever dream, a woman struggles to win over the crowd.Yeh Ballet
IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 2020
Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams.Holiday at the Seaside
IMDB 7 | Aug , 2013
Amalia, a girl of thirteen, gets her first period one day before leaving for the seaside with her parents.STRAW
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 2025
What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the breaking point — and into a shocking act of desperation.The Nines
IMDB 6 | Jan , 2007
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.Sherrybaby
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2006
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.The Princess Bride
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 1987
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.The Mothman Prophecies
IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 2002
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.My Dead Friend Zoe
IMDB 6.1 | Mar , 2024
Merit, a U.S. Army veteran suffering from PTSD, is repeatedly tortured by visions of her deceased friend and company buddy Zoe. After her Afghanistan service in 2016, she attends group therapy until Dale, her grandfather and former Lieutenant Colonel, is recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Merit steps up to his aide, and discovers more about herself and her family, while also gaining the courage to put her metaphorical demons to rest.The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1972
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.Jamon Jamon
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 1992
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.Psychosis in Stockholm
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2020
On vacation in Stockholm, a teenage daughter is left wandering the city alone when her mother suffers from a sudden mental breakdown. Coming of age becomes an equally sudden necessity.The Nightman
IMDB 1 | Feb , 1992
A drifter comes between an aging Southern beauty and her teenaged daughter.Vanilla Sky
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 2001
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.Or (My Treasure)
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2004
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.Gypsy
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 2015
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee.