Tumbleweeds

PG-13 6.7
1999 1 hr 42 min Drama , Comedy

Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine Ava is tiring of. This time, they are helped on their move to San Diego by trucker Jack Ranson. While Ava settles in, getting a leading part in the school play, Jack starts dating Mary Jo but soon reveals himself to be controlling and aggressive. Mary Jo prepares to flee again, angering Ava.

  • Cast:
    Janet McTeer , Kimberly J. Brown , Jay O. Sanders , Gavin O'Connor , Laurel Holloman , Lois Smith , Michael J. Pollard

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Reviews

Kattiera Nana
1999/11/24

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Curapedi
1999/11/25

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

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Hadrina
1999/11/26

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Celia
1999/11/27

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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