Nine-year-old Ella (Molly Belle Wright) is gently woken at dawn by her dad (John Magaro, Köln 75). “Imagine what you would grab if there were a fire,” he says. She takes a framed picture of mom, some books, gets the dog in the car along with her younger brother Charlie. And they hit the road, heading she knows not where, or why, but sensing their lives will not the same again.
Cole Webley’s film is really just a fragment of a story, yet it unfolds with such authenticity it lands with an emotional wallop. It’s a road movie, photographed with graceful lyricism by Paul Meyers, and cut close to the bone, like a Raymond Carver short story. You will be moved.
Intimate in its scope, yet emotionally monumental.
Carlos Aguilar, Variety
A model of tone, concision, and emotional and psychological insight, led by a staggering performance from John Magara and an equally moving one from pint-sized co-star Molly Belle Wright.
Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
Cole Webley
John Magaro, Molly Belle Wright, Wyatt Solis, Talia Balsam
USA
2025
English
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Credits
Executive Producer
Russ Kendall, Adam Thomas Anderegg, Micah W. Merrill, Nicholas Hill, Nick Warner
Producer
Preston Lee
Co-Producer
John Foss, Scott James
Screenwriter
Robert Machoian
Cinematography
Paul Meyers
Editor
Jai Shukla
Original Music
Christopher Bear
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