David
Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin, Frances Fisher
96
Minutes; 2002
Meg
is an emotionally tormented young girl who’s mother is never home and who’s
father is permanently gone. She turns to
an English teacher for support and he encourages her to enter a poetry contest
to give her an outlet for her pain.
What begins as a teacher/student relationship begins to become something
more in this sensitive drama.
PROMOTION IDEA:
Have
a poetry contest in your school newspaper in the weeks leading up to your
show. Let the winners of the contest
read their poems before your show.