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Synopsis: WHAT MAISIE KNEW is a contemporary New York City re-visioning of the Henry James novel by the same name, written by Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne. It revolves around unwitting 7-year-old Maisie, caught in the middle of a custody battle between her mother Suzanna, an aging rock star, and her father, Beale, a major art dealer. In a race to win the court's advantage, Beale marries Maisie's nanny Margo, prompting Suzanna in turn to marry friend and local bartender, Lincoln. Both forced into a battle neither wishes to be a part of, Margo and Lincoln come to empathize with Maisie's position and over time with one another's. Teased by the notion of making their own surrogate family, the trio must either submit to the will of Maisie's parents or eventually face their wrath.
Genre: Drama
Production: Millenium Entertainment
  3 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
2012
99 min
$1,000,000
Website
540 Views


sure I'm not some random ...

I'm not going to call Susanna.

Why don't you call her?

Yeah. Yeah, sure. I can call.

Hey, it's me.

Yeah, no, it's good.

I'm aah outside the school

here with Maisie, ...

and Margo is here.

I understand.

Yeah, well, she doesn't

really know who I am.

Yeah, all right.

Just one second.

Uh, it's Susanna.

Hello?

Yes.

I heard you.

Okay, so I'll just take Maisie ...

Huh.. hello?

Susanna?

Hello?

Okay.

Uh, I guess that's done.

Yeah, I guess.

I've got to go.

You need a cab?

Yeah.

I'll get.. I'll get you one.

Hey, taxi.

Hi.

Okay, Maisie, I'll

see you in ten days.

I don't want you to go.

It'll be okay, okay?

I promise.

I have to go.

I don't want to go with him.

Oh, Maisie.

I really, really love you. Okay?

Okay.

See you in ten days, okay?

Bye, sweetie.

Have a nice honeymoon.

Bye, Maisie.

Please say bye.

JFK, please.

Yeah, we should probably wait.

She's lost it.

No, we need some more.

Oh, I'll be back.

Baby just came home.

Ooh, I have to kiss you.

Mommy?

Yeah?

Did you really get married?

Uh..huh. But I still love you the best.

And I'm still your mommy, right?

And, you know, he's just... he's

just like a friend.

You don't have to call

him Daddy or anything.

Just like... just like you don't

call Margo mommy, right?

You can just call him Lincoln.

Did you have a flower girl?

Oh, you know what? If we

did, it would've been you.

But we kept it really low key, ...

and, um, it was just like with a

Justice of the Peace kind of thing.

We didn't even have a cake.

No cake?

No cake.

Sad but true.

Here, want to see something?

You want to see what he gave me?

Look at this.

Look at that.

It's tiny.

It is tiny, isn't it?

Tiny, tiny, little one.

There.

Hey.

Hey.

Sorry.

It's okay.

Come on in.

Well I.. I got to go to work actually.

Okay.

Aah, It was nice seeing you again, Maisie.

Say goodbye to Lincoln.

Bye.

Bye.

Look how tall he is.

He's so tall.

Does he always work at night?

Yeah.

He's pretty much just a bartender,

but you know, whatever.

It's good, so when I'm

working, he can watch you.

It'll be good.

Can I tell you a secret?

I married him for you.

I married him for you.

Sleep tight on the night train.

No pain.

I don't remember...

for a couple of years.

Did some good for you

No, your eyes...

Hey, it's too thin.

I want to do a couple more,

and then I want to

hear it doubled, okay?

You got it.

What are you making?

It's a palace?

No, it's a castle.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, of course.

It's beautiful.

You're really good.

I don't know how to make

one of those... bridges.

Oh, like a drawbridge?

Well, just, um, ...

if you make the doorway here ...

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