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Memory
- Director/Writer:
- Josh Humphrey
- Starring:
- Olympia Dukakis (Charlotte),
- Lynn Redgrave (Grandma),
- Diane Ladd (Jobie)
- Release Date:
- November 15, 2005
"Memory" is the moving story of Charlotte Lewis (Olympia Dukakis), a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and mental turmoil brought about by nightmares of increasing intensity. In the dreams, she is a young girl, and she runs from unknown terrors.
Trying to understand her troubling dreams, Charlotte revisits part of her childhood, which comes back to her in a series of impressionistic memories. Charlotte, her sister Jobie, and her mother are living with her grandmother. It is 1944, and World War II rages in Europe and the Far East. Though Grandma’s farm seems to be a peaceful refuge, there is an undercurrent of fear and brooding menace in their surroundings.
"Memory" also stars Lynn Redgrave as the grandmother, Diane Ladd as the older Jobie, and Bobbie Eakes as the mother. Ariel Blackwood is the younger Charlotte, and Maggie Jones is young Jobie.
The message of this film is as timely as the todays's news broadcasts, as another generation struggles with the same fears and difficulties faced by the families of soldiers during World War II. The strength and determination of this older generation will, we hope, be an example to 21st century Americans.