Does anyone know the name of this movie based on this plot?
Posted: November 28th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Travel For Disabled | Tags: anyone, Based, know, movie, name, plot, this | 3 Comments »I watched a rather disturbing movie when I was younger. I’d like to see it again now that I have the intelligence to actually focus and not go into shock. I don’t recall the movie’s name or character names, though.
It starts off with the small family. The mother dies and the father calls the daughter in to gather the deceased mother’s belongings and place them around her. I recall candles, too. Then he said they had to rush off before they were found out, because they may be blamed for the woman’s death. This really young girl (10-12?) and him take a bus to an arid area. I remember grass, but I also remember it being dry. I dunno. Anyways, they get in there and the man reveals himself to be a druggy. She helps him prepare his arm before he shoots up. They call this his “vacation.” So she heads off to have fun and I think she meets some handicapped male. They get along and he leads her to this woman’s house, who apparently has a connection to her father.
When the little girl returns, the dad is still out. She tugs at him, but thinks he’s ignoring her to stay on vacation. His bladder releases and he stinks in the following days, showing he’s been dead. The woman who knew him takes the body and they all clean it out so she can stuff it.
Some of this may be off or mixed up, but perhaps someone knows the story from the very striking events I describe?
i have seen this but cannot remember what it’s called, the druggie was played by Jeff Bridges if that helps narrow it down. I never liked it because there was certain undertones in the film …
I believe it is Tideland “Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose’s parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma OD’s, he fears to be charged of homicide and takes her along to his ma’s place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy worlds she and her doll heads enter magically. In its adventures she also stars the crazy locals, notably Dell, her domineering hag ma and adult, but retarded brother Dickens. “
Tideland- After her mother (Jennifer Tilly) dies from a drug overdose, Jeliza-Rose and her father, Noah (Jeff Bridges), flee to Noah’s mother’s home, a remote Texas farmhouse. They find the home abandoned, but they settle in anyway. Their first night there, Noah dies from a heroin overdose. For much of the rest of the film, Noah’s corpse remains seated upright in a living room chair with sunglasses covering his eyes. As her father slowly begins to rot, Jeliza-Rose doesn’t readily acknowledge his death because she has grown accustomed to him being unconscious for long periods at a time. Instead, she retreats deeper and deeper into her own mind, exploring the tall grass around the farmhouse, relying on her doll heads for friendship as an unconscious way of keeping herself from feeling too lonely and afraid.