Elisabeth Shue
Isabelle Goodrow
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- Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality. When discovered, this emotional and physical trespass brings disgrace to Amy's mother, Isabelle, and intensifies the shame she feels about her own past.
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Synopsis. When she is 16 years old, Amy goes to work at her mother's office, working in the office part of a mill in Shirley Falls. The two had previously had a close relationship, but their current relationship is strained and Amy is disdainful of her mother, who she sees as an awkward outsider.
- Elizabeth Strout
- 303 pages
- 1998
- 1998
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues.
Premise. Isabelle and Amy Goodrow are a mother and daughter that are currently living in the small mill town of Shirley Falls. The two are frequently at odds, something that is partially because Isabelle keeps everyone at a distance, which strains her relationship with her daughter.
- Ernest Troost
Mar 4, 2001 · Amy & Isabelle: Directed by Lloyd Kramer. With Elisabeth Shue, Hanna Hall, Martin Donovan, Conchata Ferrell. In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone.
- (471)
- Drama
- Lloyd Kramer
- 2001-03-04
Plot Summary. Elizabeth Strout’s first novel, family drama Amy and Isabelle (1998), was adapted into a TV movie of the same name, produced by Oprah Winfrey in 2001. The novel is set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls, Maine.
In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle, Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother—and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets.
Brief Synopsis. Television movie based on Elizabeth Strout's novel about the tensions and longings that exist in the lives of ordinary people. Amy is a shy 15-year-old girl who lives with her single mother, Isabelle, a secretary at the local mill.
