Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)****+

Seen on 23-9-2009 - HBO Movie

Cast: Jodelle Ferland (Hollis), Sissy Spacec (Josie, the artist who suffers from alzhemier), Ridge Canipe (Steven Regan), Julie Ann Emery (Izzy Regan), Alfre Woodard (Edna, the black social worker), etc
Dir. : Tony Bill

Based on Patricia Reilly Giff's novel.

We found it difficult to withhold tears in some of the scenes. Very moving and, mind you, no mush or sentimental drama.

IMDB Summary:
"Hollis Woods' search for a family is a perpetual journey, as she moves from one foster home to another until she meets the Regan family and the two rather quirky elderly women who teach her a lot about love."

This is rather too sketchy to even pretend to talk about the experience of the movie. The twelve year old orphan girl who is in charge of the social worker, Edna (Alfre Woodard) keeps moving from one foster home to another. The movie focuses on two homes where the sensitive little artist Hollis bonds first with Regans and then with the Alzhemier-stricken retired teacher, Josie (Sissy Spacec) . By the time she bonds with each family some disastrous thing happens and she is moved to another home although no one really blames her for what happens. However she decides not to move the second time because she has come to love for Josie; but in the process of evading this shift she is reunited with Regans even as finds, to her happiness, that her friend is Josie being properly taken care of by her friend Beatrice.
Not even this summary sum up the movie. It's all in its details and particulars that it lives and moves us and this is hard to sum up.