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June 20, 2009
Stamford Connecticut girl makes good (again).
Our friend Ellen Bry, a nighttime drama television mainstay (St. Elsewhere, Dexter, Boston Legal, Monk, The Closer) for decades, and WAC?'s official photographer, has the lead role as Ester Hobbes, a Chicago socialite who suddenly loses everything, in The Lost & Found Family, a new Sony Pictures release. In the film, we meet a strong and spiritual woman who is surprised to learn that she has inherited just one thing from her dead businessman husband: a run-down old house in Georgia, and the turbulent foster family living in it.
Taken from the story Mrs. Hobbes' House, The Lost & Found Family is a poignant, uplifting, instructive and remarkably powerful family film set in the American South. A movie for people who go to church, sing, watch lots of TV, eat a lot, and are afraid of virtually everyone and everything all the time, it is bound to be a cult classic seen by millions who live in the vast and troubled reverie that is American fly-over country.
Seriously, folks, the movie will touch each viewer with simple but forgotten verities that bind us to one another. There are artful, and moving, performances by Ellen and her younger cast members, who include teen heartthrob Lucas Till, and Jessica Luza, an actress and MTV fashion host. Ellen's other film credits include Mission Impossible 3, Deep Impact, and Bye, Bye Love.
Posted by JD Hull at June 20, 2009 11:59 PM