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Margaret
Why this pick
Lonergan again builds drama from messy, overlapping conversations and moral uncertainty, following a young woman whose impulsive act keeps reverberating through family and city life.
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MOVIE2000 1h 51m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
As children, Sammy and Terry Prescott lose their parents to a car accident. Years later, Sammy, a single mother and loan officer at a bank, still lives in her childhood home in Scottsville, New York, while Terry has drifted around the country, scraping by and getting in and out of trouble.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Laura Linney
Samantha Prescott
Mark Ruffalo
Terry Prescott
Halley Feiffer
Amy
Amy Ryan
Rachel Louise Prescott
Kenneth Lonergan
Ron
Nina Garbiras
Nancy Everett
Michael Countryman
Thomas Gerard Prescott
Whitney Vance
Young Sammy Prescott