A drama directed by Michael Apted, starring Jodie Foster and Liam Neeson.
An old hermit woman dies and leaves her strange daughter unattended. The town doctor finds the daughter in the house when he is attending to her dead mother. The daughter speaks broken English and has never left the cabin. The doctor calls in a psychologist to help him, as the government wants to lock the girl up in a mental home.
The plot and characters were good, but I couldn't help but think that the friendly doctors were mocking this girl's speech. Another inconsistency is the local cop running a news van off the trail. Everyone knows that cops would never help those in need! The plot gets very sentimental towards the end and the ending is under-explained. The style and pacing fit this film very well and the production value was pretty good. I'm tired of writing "adequate", but I have to. It's better than o.k., but not quite good enough to call good.
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