All that Maddy Hawkins has ever wanted was a family she could call her own. Even in 1959, the simplest things are difficult to find...Maddy, a street-wise teenage runaway, believes she has created this family with the women who live with her in an East Coast woman-only rooming house: Lulu, an eccentric silent-screen star; Claire, a beautiful, widowed French war bride; and Mary, a young artist.But as Maddy watches her newfound family fall apart, she begins to realize that some things in life are worth fighting for, and that the bonds of true friendship are the strongest bonds of all.
Joely Richardson
as Claire
Claire Bloom
as Lulu Fraker
Aleksa Palladino
as Maddy Hawkins
Adrienne Shelly
as Mary
Sam Trammell
as Will
Jay O. Sanders
as Rick
Tom Guiry
as Pete (as Thomas Guiry)
Nicole Bradin
as Susan Wright
