The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)

95 min · Coming Of Age, Drama, Komödie, coming-of-age film, drama film

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Directors

Tara Johns

Cast

Dolly Parton, Macha Grenon, Gil Bellows, Julia Sarah Stone, Trevor Hayes, Rebecca Windheim, Rebecca Croll, Luca Palladini, Chantele Francis, Will Woytowich

The story

Elizabeth lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1976. She is nearly 12, which Marion, her mother, points out "makes you still 11". Elizabeth and her friend Annabelle are looking forward to their bodies maturing, including the possibility that they might get "big boobs" like Dolly Parton.

Catalogue themes and tags

1970s, Adoption, Canada, Familie, Friendship, Looking for Birth Parents, Mädchen mit langen schwarzen Haaren, Parents

Genres

Coming Of Age, Drama, Komödie, coming-of-age film, drama film

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