Housekeeping (1987)
- 7.2
- 117 mins
- Comedy, Drama
Storyline
In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.—Ron Kerrigan
Plot Keywords
aunt niece relationship, small town, female protagonist, flood, 1950s, orphan, coming of age, train, eccentricity, train tracks, snow, ice skating, sister sister relationship, based on novel
Short Review
Housekeeping is a stranger, sparser, sadder film than it first appears. Forsyth, the Glaswegian film-maker known for Gregory's Girl (1981) and Local Hero (1983), channels the spirit of Robinson's distinctive prose.
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