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Housekeeping is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, and Andrea Burchill. Based on Marilynne Robinson 's 1980 novel Housekeeping, it is about two young sisters growing up in Idaho in the 1950s.
Feb 5, 1988 · Housekeeping: Directed by Bill Forsyth. With Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill, Anne Pitoniak. After their mother commits suicide, two sisters end up living with their kind but peculiar aunt in their grandmother's old house in a small 1950s town.
In a land where the people are narrow and suspicious, where do they draw the line between madness and sweetness? Between those who are unable to conform to society’s norm and those who simply choose not to, because their dreamy private world is more alluring?
Lucille (Andrea Burchill) and Ruth (Sara Walker) come to live with their off-the-wall Aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti) after their mother kills herself. From sleeping on park benches to methodically...
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG
The original trailer in high definition directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchil and Anne Pitoniak.AKA:Azo Min Doda...
In the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, two young sisters abandoned by their mother-Ruth (Sara Walker) and Lucille (Andrea Burchill)-are raised by a succession of aged relatives until their aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti) arrives like a breath of fresh air.
The film begins in the 1940's, when Ruth ("Ruthie") and her little sister, Lucille, two young girls living in a city apartment, are taken for a drive by their unstable yet prim and beautiful mother to the rural small town of Fingerbone, a place situated in the mountains.
