Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, The

A FILM BY Tara Johns

Terrific

- Liz Braun, Toronto Sun

The actors are appealing and the music is great

- Norman Wilner, Now Magazine

Young actress Julia Stone hits the right notes

- Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail

«Un vrai film de fille que je reverrais nimporte quand!»

- Annie-Soleil Proteau, Cest bien meilleur le matin

«Brillante Macha Grenon.»

- Véronique Harvey, Ici

Synopsis

It's 1976 and Elizabeth is just your average suburban 11-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed "truth" she's been clinging to and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who's searching for a mother - both of them really searching for themselves…. The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female, coming of age story that explores the tension between creating identity and finding it within…