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Manhattan, Kansas

Mar 10, 2006
1h 20m
★ 7.0

A documentary about a most unusual mother & child reunion.

Overview

Filmmaker Evie Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mentally unstable mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie’s psychotic breakdown five years earlier. She finds a parent still chasing her demons, both real and imagined, struggling to make a career for herself as an abstract artist and searching for the Geodetic Center of the United States, the finding of which, Evie says, will bring about world peace.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

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Evie Wray

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