Perfect Pie
In the course of a weekend's reunion between two estranged women, a deeply buried and painful memory comes crashing into the present. Patsy (Crewson), a bright and popular beauty who married her high school sweetheart and became a farm wife and Francesca (Williams) a sensitive ugly-duckling who fled her alcoholic mother and recreated herself to become a glamorous opera diva, were once childhood best friends. Together they are able to piece together the fragmented memories of a horrifying event that separated that separated them as children and kept them apart for almost thirty years.
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I enjoyed it a lot - ABT-
I'm surprised that this has gotten a bad zip rating and user rating. It's a great story about old best friends who were separated by a traumatic event and reunited 30 years later. One of them has changed her name and become a world-famous opera star, the other has remained on her mother's farm in small town Ontario. Both of them are still haunted by that traumatic night.
Imagine if the boys from Stand By Me had reunited years later. The two female characters in Perfect Pie didn't have the same kind of bonding experience but there are similarities (and not just the train tracks).
Alison Pill and Rachel McAdams give strong performances, as do Wendy Crewson and Barbara Williams, who played the adult versions of those characters. Wendy and Rachel always impress me. I haven't seen enough of the other two to make that statement. It's nice that Alison and Rachel have the versitility to go from drama to cheesy teen films and back.
Give it a chance. You may be surprised.
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I enjoyed it a lot - ABT-
I'm surprised that this has gotten a bad zip rating and user rating. It's a great story about old best friends who were separated by a traumatic event and reunited 30 years later. One of them has changed her name and become a world-famous opera star, the other ...