A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.
Acting
Graham's ferocious, vanity-free descent into damage.
Direction
Alan White's unflinching handheld intimacy.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds actually improvised by desperate people.
Director
Alan White
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 2005 but shelved for two years; distributor insecurity about Graham's dramatic range proved unfounded at festivals.
Part of a forgotten wave of mid-2000s addiction dramas—'Sherrybaby,' 'Down to the Bone'—that studios buried while Oscar-baiting 'Ray' and 'Walk the Line.'
US
