At a Glance

A free-spirited woman with two children who leaves town after a relationship fails, ends up in East Port where she falls for the local shoe shop owner.

Detailed Information

Cher is magical and electric, Winona Ryder enchanting and funny and Christina Ricci adorable and engaging in this hilarious and heart-warming portrait of a 1960's single-parent family trying to adjust to each other's growing independence.
Charlotte (Ryder) is an adolescent girl torn between her blossoming passions for a handsome caretaker (Michael Schoeffling)... and her desire to be a nun (a tough calling for a girl who's Jewish).
Complicating her already precarious teen angst is a little sister (Ricci), a determined would-be swimmer she affectionately calls 'fishhead', and their mother (Cher), a non-traditional, sexy, flamboyant woman who relocates them to a new town every time she causes a hint of scandal... which is often. But even as their personal styles clash, these three incredibly different individuals begin to see that nothing... not even a life-threatening tragedy... can tear apart the bonds of family.