Wednesday, June 20, 9:30 p.m. Elmwood (Berkeley)
Thursday, June 21, 6:30 p.m. Victoria
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| Snapshots: Emily Goss (L) and Emily Baldoni (R) |
Three generations of women (grandmother Rose [Piper Laurie; Shannon Collis in the flashback scenes], mother Patty [Brooke Adams], and daughter Allison [Emily Baldoni]) gather at the Rose’s lakeside cottage for a weekend. Patty’s husband has recently died, and she is turning to the bottle for solace. Allison is newly married and facing some difficult issues in that relationship. Allison found Rose’s old camera with a roll of exposed film in it, so she had the film developed; the prints take Rose back to her twenties (late 1950s and early 60s) when she and her husband bought the cabin and met bold and brazen redhead Louise [Emily Goss] and her husband.
Various family secrets and old but never settled arguments come to the surface, interspersed with flashbacks to Rose’s younger days. It’s the stuff of good, heartfelt drama, with some humor mixed in to keep it from getting too heavy. Patty’s anger at her dead husband (who she found out two months before his sudden death was cheating on her) and deep defensiveness with both Rose and Allison were rather annoying to watch at times, but the ending is ample payoff for putting up with one annoying character through the middle of the story, so I’ll give it a rating of highly recommended.
Although it is fiction, Snapshots is based on a true story.
Various family secrets and old but never settled arguments come to the surface, interspersed with flashbacks to Rose’s younger days. It’s the stuff of good, heartfelt drama, with some humor mixed in to keep it from getting too heavy. Patty’s anger at her dead husband (who she found out two months before his sudden death was cheating on her) and deep defensiveness with both Rose and Allison were rather annoying to watch at times, but the ending is ample payoff for putting up with one annoying character through the middle of the story, so I’ll give it a rating of highly recommended.
Although it is fiction, Snapshots is based on a true story.
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