
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play An abandoned 12-year-old girl finds a cathartic way forward in this bittersweet drama from director Bill Maher When her mother Joleen (Charlize Theron) finally decides she&s had enough of her life & heads off into the night with a trucker she leaves daughter Tara (Anna Sophia Robb) in foster care Although his own life isn&t exactly peaches & cream Joleen&s slacker brother James (Nick Stahl) feels sympathy for his niece taking her out of care before the two head off for the comfort of the road With no idea of his next move James soon finds himself heading to his father (Dennis Hopper)&s farm the place he has never returned to since his difficult & violent childhood But now in an attempt to pull the fragments of the family back together he realises the time is ripe to finally put the past to rest & allow his niece the childhood she has never experienced