
Wrestling with Alligators
At the end of an era, her life was just beginning.
1998 en 95 minutes
Rating: 10
Plot
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.
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Cast

Joely Richardson
Claire

Claire Bloom
Lulu Fraker

Aleksa Palladino
Maddy Hawkins

Adrienne Shelly
Mary

Sam Trammell
Will

Jay O. Sanders
Rick

Tom Guiry
Pete (as Thomas Guiry)

Nicole Bradin
Susan Wright