Lili Taylor
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A Slipping-Down Life premiered on January 22, 1999, at the Sundance Film Festival, distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment. It was given limited theatrical release in the United States on May 14, 2004. Awards. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Festival.
Jan 22, 1999 · A Slipping-Down Life: Directed by Toni Kalem. With Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, Irma P. Hall, Tom Bower. A shy, young woman, living a sheltered life in a small southern town, embarks on a journey to self-awareness when she falls in love with an eccentric rock star.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Toni Kalem
- 1999-01-22
"A slipping-down life" is about a school girl who falls in love with an unsuccessful rock singer. Against all odds, they end up together, but as the title suggests, it's not exactly a fairy tale. Both of the main characters are strange, but guy is a whiny entitled asshole.
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- Paperback
- Anne Tyler
May 4, 2004 · A Slipping-Down Life. Paperback – May 4, 2004. The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author brings us the story of Evie Decker, a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him.
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- 1970
- Anne Tyler
- Anne Tyler
Plot summary. Evie Decker is a shy, slightly plump teenager, lonely and silent. But her quiet life is shattered when she hears the voice of Drumstrings Casey on the radio and becomes instantly attracted to him. She manages to meet him, bursting out of her lonely shell—and into the attentive gaze of the intangible man who becomes all too real....
- Anne Tyler
- 1970
Jan 5, 2011 · A Slipping-Down Life is so shrewdly written and the characters so expertly constructed that I wound up reading it in about three days. It is almost a novella exploring the lives of two lost young people. The girl, Evie, is plain, lonely and bored. The boy is arrogant, insouciant, and swirling in a haze of artistic yearning.
- Anne Tyler
A Slipping-Down Life R Released Jan 22, 1999 1h 51m Drama List 27% Tomatometer 63 Reviews 44% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings "Drumstrings" Casey (Guy Pearce) is an aspiring rock musician, though he ...
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- Drama
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