Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Acting
Julia Sarah Stone carries the whole film with heartbreaking specificity.
Direction
Tara Johns balances 70s kitsch with genuine emotional devastation.
Director
Tara Johns
Julia Sarah Stone
Elizabeth
Gil Bellows
Phil
Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton (voice)
Macha Grenon
Marion
Chantele Francis
Gloria
Dawn Ford
Off Camera Performance
Trevor Hayes
Ken Kowalski
Rebecca Croll
Stella Kowalski
Léa Roy
Lana
Mung-Ling Tsui
Chinese Woman
Keenan Lehmann
Boy in station wagon
Will Woytowich
US Border Guard
Emma Elle Paterson
Shelly
Keir Cutler
Senior US Customs Agent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dolly Parton recorded her voiceover in a single afternoon and famously refused payment, calling it her 'investment in little girls with big dreams.'
The film captures a specific 1976 Montreal moment when American pop culture flooded Canadian suburbs, making Dolly both impossibly distant and weirdly accessible.
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