Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Housekeeping [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents ; screenplay by Bill Forsyth ; produced by Robert F. Colesberry ; directed by Bill Forsyth.

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2011.

Description:

1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

"Writer/director Bill Forsyth (Comfort and Joy, Being Human) brings to life this tale, set in the 1950s and based on a novel by Marilynne Robinson, which is neither a sentimental nor simple exploration of familial and emotional bonds. Ruth (Sara Walker) and Lucille (Andrea Burchill) are two young sisters who are abandoned by their mother and raised by a succession of aged relatives, until their unconventional aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti, Running on Empty) arrives like a breath of fresh air. Sylvie has been living on the road for many years, and her life is detached from the norms of the community; she returns home to bittersweet memories and the town's harsh scrutiny. The girls are thrilled to have a charming young role model and Sylvie's new responsibilities offer her a chance for real love, sharing a home, and a sense of family -- all things she has not felt for a long time. Eventually, as Ruth and Lucille's perceptions of Sylvie change, the two girls develop vastly different ways of relating to this eccentric, original woman"--Container.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG. OFRB rating: F; for a mature theme.

Subjects:

Robinson, Marilynne -- Film adaptations.

Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Northwest, Pacific -- Drama.

Girls -- Drama.

Aunts -- Drama.

Mothers -- Death -- Drama.

Comedy films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Fiction films.