The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom: December 2008

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Bringing a little piece of Nashville up here to Montréal, 2009 will be the year of Dolly!

Movie Fun Facts!

Number of shooting days: 15 in Quebec, 14 in Manitoba

Number of women on the crew: 165

Number of times the title changed: 0

Number of bicycles standing by for the cliff scene: 2 (One wide shot and one medium slo mo!)

Number of Dolly wigs needed for the concert scene: 15

*Exteriors were generally shot in Manitoba and interiors in Quebec so more then one scene features an actor walking out of a room in one province into a different room in another!

*Dolly Parton approved each and every photo of herself that appears in the film.

*The Dolly! show that Elizabeth is so inspired by in the film ran for one season only (1976-1977).

What's the Story?

It's 1976 and Elizabeth is just your average suburban 11-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive, when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother, Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed "truth" she's been clinging to, and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who's searching for a mother - both of them really searching for themselves.

The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female coming of age story that explores the tension between creating identity and finding it within...

Sunday, December 28, 2008

We're Making a Movie!

Where Can You See the Movie?

You Want Dolly to Come to Your Town? DEMAND IT!

Tara and Dolly in Nashville

Movie Fun Facts!

The Filmmaker - Writer/Director Tara Johns

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

We're Making a Movie!

Where Can You See the Movie?

You Want Dolly to Come to Your Town? DEMAND IT!

Tara and Dolly in Nashville

Movie Fun Facts!

The Filmmaker - Writer/Director Tara Johns

What's the Story?

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