Ellen Foster Page #2

Synopsis: After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Erman
Production: Hallmark Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
PG-13
Year:
1997
94 min
177 Views


"Look here, Mama,

you can't be doing

"all this cooking

and cleaning up and what-not.

You have to be in bed getting

rested like Aunt Betsy said. "

I should have put my foot down.

I think that'll be on my mind

for quite a long time.

Mama, I have to go.

Not now, sweetie.

Can't we stop?

Hold it, pumpkin,

all right?

"... Surely goodness and mercy

shall follow me

all the days of my life... "

My baby.

"Earth to earth

"ashes to ashes, dust to dust

"in sure and certain hope

of the resurrection

"to eternal life

through our lord Jesus Christ

"who shall change

our mortal body

"that it may be like

"unto his glorious body

"according

to the mighty work

whereby he is able to subdue

all things to himself. "

Oh, you rotten piece of trash!

You're the one who

should be in that box

you scum!

Why is it that

somebody like my daughter dies

and you don't?!

You took off

and ruined her!

Ruined her life!

Broke her heart!

Scarred her soul!

May God in his wisdom

strike you dead

If somebody else

don't do it for us first!

Seemed to me

she might have got hold

on her natural meanness

for her own daughter's funeral

at least.

I guess she hated my daddy

more than she loved my mama.

It didn't seem proper to me.

I think at a funeral everybody

should love everybody else.

Starletta, wait up.

Bye.

Bye.

My mama says

your mama passed on.

Uh-huh.

That's why

you wasn't at school?

Uh-huh.

My mama said to say

she's real sorry

and she hopes

she'll come by soon

to say it her own self.

Okay.

You're going to have to catch up

on your homework.

How you doing?

Fine.

What's in the box?

Just some beads

And things.

My Mama used to let me

play with that.

She won't be letting you

play with it anymore.

You tell your daddy

the message is

plain and simple.

Now get it right.

You listening?!

You tell him

that I'd rather some tramp

had my Charlotte's things

than any of you bunch

that drink and carry on

like trash.

I'm sorry, hon.

Hi, honey!

Hi.

I just stopped by

to see how you

getting along.

Is your daddy here?

He's not home much anymore.

Where is he?

I don't know.

Sometimes he comes

home to sleep

but I think

all he's doing now

is drinking and sleeping.

What you doing?

Playing catalog.

What's that?

First I pick out

a little family

and then house stuff

and clothes.

Sleepwear and fancy jackets

for the man and pantsuits

and I outfit everybody...

the mom and the dad

and the kids.

The kids are cute.

Next, they get some camping

equipment and a waffle iron

and bedroom suits and some toys.

And the daddy

who works in a factory

and the mama...

she works at a bank.

They like to dress up

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Kaye Gibbons

Kaye Gibbons (born May 5, 1960) is an American novelist. Her first novel, Ellen Foster (1987), received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gibbons is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and two of her books, Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, were selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1998. Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina, and went to Rocky Mount Senior High School. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. She has three daughters. Gibbons has bipolar disorder and notes that she is extremely creative during her manic phases, in which she believes that everything is instrumented by a "real magic". Ellen Foster was written during one such phase. On November 2, 2008, Gibbons was arrested on prescription drug fraud charges. According to authorities, she was taken into custody while trying to pick up a fraudulent prescription for the painkiller hydrocodone. She was sentenced to a 90-day suspended sentence, 2 years probation, and a $300 fine. more…

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