Director: Randall Miller
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen, Sean Astin
This is one of those slow-moving stories; the kind that makes you feel like you are with them.
Frank (Carlyle) is driving home when he comes across a car accident. He calls the police and stays with the driver (Goodman) who begins to talk about where he was headed- to Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School to meet Lisa, his childhood sweetheart. They had agreed to meet there 40 years ago. Now, as he's bleeding and dying, he urges Frank to go in his place.
Frank, still suffering from his wife's suicide, goes to the school, and doesn't find Lisa, but ends up finding his own life again.
The story bounces around from Frank's time at the school, and back to the accident, then to the 60's as the dying man tells Frank about the Charm school and Lisa.
I liked it!
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