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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1997 - 20.27 July

Sections & Films

DIGGING TO CHINA

Category: Edition 1997

Synopsis
10-year-old Harriet dreams of leaving her home, where she doesn't feel she's needed by her mother and sister Gwen. When her mother dies in a car accident, she really starts to make plans for leaving and she finally does so together with her childlike (mentally ill) friend Ricky.        

Original Title Digging to China
Italian Title Un autunno tra le nuvole
Category Official Competition
Section Competition
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 98'
Production Year 1997
Nationality USA
Directed by Timothy Hutton
Screenplay Karen Janszen
Music Cynthia Millar
Main cast Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson

 regista Timothy HuttonTIMOTHY HUTTON

Timothy Hutton was born in Malibu, California, to Maryline (Poole), a teacher, and actor Jim Hutton (Dana James Hutton). He set Hollywood ablaze when he burst onto the acting scene in the early 1980s. After only a small number of significant roles in TV movies, he bagged the part of Conrad in the Robert Redford-directed Gente comune (1980). His convincing - and touching - performance as the troubled and self-accusing teenager trying to deal with the death of his older brother, won him an Academy Award. He is, to date, the youngest actor to receive an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (1980).
Tim made his Broadway debut in 1989 in the A.R. Gurney play 'Love Letters'.