![]() ![]() ![]() The line between playing a role and living it is one of the movie's subjects. When she's doing research at the school, she takes questions from a drama class and gives a wildly inappropriate answer when asked about performing sex scenes. But is there anything to understand? Has Gracie herself, who seems to live without guilt, even understood what she's done and how it's affected her family? And if Elizabeth gets close to her-that is, begins to normalize her-is that a risky endeavor? Elizabeth is 36, the same age that Gracie was when she committed her crimes, and she grows to really like Joe. Moffett) and children from her previous marriage still live in the area, which makes for quite the community psychodrama.Įlizabeth wants to understand Gracie apart from the headlines and her cultural footprint. ![]() ![]() Out of pity, locals buy the baked goods she sells. But people still send her packages of excrement. Gracie has superficially reintegrated into society she's currently helping one of the daughters she had with Joe prepare to graduate from high school. Then the film, written by Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, reveals exactly why Gracie has been deemed worthy of a motion picture: She is a Mary Kay Letourneau–like figure who, decades earlier, raped a seventh grader, went to prison, and upon release married her victim, Joe, who is now in his 30s (and played by Charles Melton). ![]()
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