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Housekeeping is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, and Andrea Burchill. Based on Marilynne Robinson 's 1980 novel Housekeeping, it is about two young sisters growing up in Idaho in the 1950s.
The movie, set some 30 or 40 years ago in the Pacific Northwest, tells the story of two young girls who are taken on a sudden and puzzling motor trip by their mother to visit a relative. Soon after they arrive, their mother commits suicide and the girls are left to be raised by elderly relatives.
Lucille (Andrea Burchill) and Ruth (Sara Walker) come to live with their off-the-wall Aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti) after their mother kills herself. From sleeping on park benches to methodically...
- (14)
- Bill Forsyth
- PG
- Christine Lahti
Synopsis. The film begins in the 1940's, when Ruth ("Ruthie") and her little sister, Lucille, two young girls living in a city apartment, are taken for a drive by their unstable yet prim and beautiful mother to the rural small town of Fingerbone, a place situated in the mountains.
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
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- Columbia Pictures
- Bill Forsyth
Housekeeping (1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Adapted from Marilynne Robinson’s outstanding novel, Housekeeping is the story of two sisters, Ruthie and Lucille, who are orphaned and raised by their peculiar Aunt Sylvie. As the young sisters grow apart, Ruthie gravitates toward her transient aunt.
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