Hope (1997 film)


Hope is a 1997 American made-for-TV drama film, starring Christine Lahti, Jena Malone and Catherine O'Hara. It was written by Kerry Kennedy and directed by Goldie Hawn, in her directorial debut. The film was first aired at TNT on October 19, 1997. Hope was shoot entirely on Texas.

Plot

Kate is a young intelligent lady, living in dreary small town in the early 1960s. She lives an ordinary life with her mother, a stroke victim, and her Uncle Ray, who owns a theater. Everything changes when a 8 year old black boy dies in a fire in Uncle Ray's theater.

Cast

For her performance in this film, Jena Malone was nominated for one Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and one YoungStar Award for "Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Miniseries/Made-for-TV Movie". J.T. Walsh was nominated for one Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.. Christine Lahti was nominated "Best TV Supporting Actress" and Goldie Hawn, "Best TV Director" in the "1998 Lone Star Film & Television Awards". And Michael D. Ornstein was nominated for the Eddie Awards for "Best Edited Two-Hour Movie for Commercial Television".
Ray Richmond from Variety magazine wrote: "First-time helmer Goldie Hawn embodies a surprising maturity and assurance directing this tearjerker set amid the early ’60s paranoia manufactured by the Cuban Missile Crisis and the growing restlessness of the Civil Rights Movement. Film is sensitively wrought, if sometimes simplistic and heavy-handed, with Hawn showing a firm grasp of the familial ties that bind — and blind."

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