Cavedweller (2004)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Lisa Cholodenko

Writers (WGA):

Dorothy Allison (novel)
Anne Meredith (screenplay)

Genre:

Drama | Music

Plot:

A traumatic event sends a musician (Sedgwick) back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abusive ex-husband (Quinn), from whom she fled years ago. |

Plot Keywords:

Musician | Husband Wife Relationship | Car Accident | Friendship | Car Mechanic

Awards:

2 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Kyra Sedgwick	...	Delia Byrd
Aidan Quinn	...	Clint Windsor
Sherilyn Fenn	...	M.T.
Jill Scott	...	Rosemary
Regan Arnold	...	Cissy Pritchard
Vanessa Zima	...	Amanda Windsor
Jackie Burroughs	...	Grandma Windsor
April Mullen	...	Dede
Dan Lett	...	Reverend Hillman
Myron Natwick	...	Granddaddy Byrd
Kevin Bacon	...	Randall Pritchard
Anne Holloway	...	Mrs. Crane
Mat Langford	...	Lester
Jon Langford	...	Herman (as Jonathan Langford)
Barry Walsh	...	Pete

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

USA:101 min (Tribeca Film Festival)

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:6 | UK:12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Cayuga, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Cavedweller Productions Ltd.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 20th IFP Independent Spirit Awards (2005) (TV)

Soundtrack:

The Best That I Can

A journey of life kinda film.

Although this film has received a lot of criticism in here, (as I have noticed) in my honest opinion, I liked it! My initial thought when the movie started was: "Oh my god, it's another one of those sappy, bad quality movies, you normally see on the Hallmark channel, (which I was watching at the time) but a few minutes into the beginning I got more interested and ended up watching all of it. Start to finish. I will however give a user right in one thing. The scene with the mother when she is driving back home, is far to long and uneventful, but maybe it was intended, to get people to focus more on the later events in the movie. Things I liked about the movie: It had humor. Great actors like Aidan Quinn, and Kevin Bacon, appeared in it. There were awesome music featured in it, and I especially liked how you had to wait to see the flashbacks, so you could understand the movie. It added excitement! The movie is supposed to be gloomy and unforgiving, which is kind of the theme word for the movie! I would like to name movies who resembled it, but I actually haven't seen a movie which resembled this one. It's also funnier than it would seem for those who haven't seen it!