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Blue Car is a american film of genre Drama directed by Karen Moncrieff released in USA on 11 january 2002 with David Strathairn
Blue Car (2002)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 11 january 2002
Length 1h36
Directed by Karen Moncrieff
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Rating65%
Blue Car is a 2002 drama film directed and written by Karen Moncrieff. It was her first film that she had directed and written.
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A gifted teenager named Megan living in the Dayton, Ohio area has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her mother, who works twelve-hour days and goes to school at night, leaving Megan to babysit her younger sister, Lily. The girls' father does not pay child support often, causing financial strain in the household.Actors
David Strathairn
(Auster)
Agnes Bruckner
(Megan ‘Meg’ Denning)
Margaret Colin
(Diane)
Alan John Buckley
(Pat)
Frances Fisher
(Delia)
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