After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp it draws blood.
Acting
Donovan's simmering rage meets Shelly's luminous detachment.
Direction
Hartley's geometric framing: emotional prisons as architecture.
Director
Hal Hartley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hal Hartley shot this immediately after The Unbelievable Truth with the same Long Island crew and locations.
Part of early '90s American indie cinema that treated working-class Long Island as Beckett terrain.
US
