First Look
Directed by
Scott Elliott
Starring
Sigourney
Weaver (Alice Goodwin)
Julianne
Moore (Theresa Collins)
David
Strathairn (Howard Goodwin)
Ron Lea (Dan Collins)
Arliss Howard (Paul Reverdy)
Chloë
Sevigny (Carole Mackessy)
Louise Fletcher (Nellie)
Dara Perlmutter (Emma)
Kayla Perlmutter (Claire)
Marc Donato (Robbie)
Hayley Lochner (Audrey)
Nicole Parker
Victoria Rudiak (Lizzy)
Sara Rue
Timm Zemanek (Edgar Becker)
Written by
Peter Hedges
Polly Platt
Jane
Hamilton (also novel)
Rated: 
(for some sexuality and language)
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 Theresa
Collins and Alice Goodwin are best friends...until one of the
women's child drowns while in the care of the other.
From Amazon.com:
From Booklist , June 19, 1994
Hamilton's novel centers on a few months in the lives
of Alice and Howard Goodwin and their little girls, Emma and
Claire. The Goodwins live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, a few
hundred acres surrounded by housing tracts. Because they are
the only farm family left, and because they are somewhat eccentric
and proud of their self-sufficiency, they are isolated from most
of their neighbors. Their only friends are the Collins family.
One day, Theresa Collins brings her daughters to stay at the
farm while she goes to work. In the few minutes that Alice spends
looking for a bathing suit, two-year-old Lizzie Collins runs
to the pond and drowns. Alice blames herself for Lizzie's death,
but that's not all. The mother of Robbie Mackessy, a little boy
who is one of Alice's most frequent patients in her job as a
part-time school nurse, accuses her of sexual child abuse, and
Alice is arrested. The rest of the book traces Alice's time in
jail, her family's efforts to cope while she is gone, and her
trial. Hamilton has a great gift for characterization, and she
can express the smallest nuances of behavior, from those of adults
under extreme stress to those of very small children. Heartbreaking,
harrowing, extremely well done. --Mary Ellen
Quinn
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