winter passing

A dramatic comedy, the debut feature of writer/director Adam Rapp, charting the fractious reunion of an estranged father and daughter. Struggling twentysomething actress Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) has been promised $100,000 by book editor Lori Lansky (Amy Madigan), if Reese can secure for publication love letters written by her legendary but reclusive novelist father Don (Ed Harris) to his equally revered late wife -- Reese's mother. Suddenly highly motivated, Reese treks from NYC to Michigan -- where she finds Don in flagrant disregard of his own health and living with two younger housemates, practical former grad student Shelly (Amelia Warner) and would-be musician Corbit (Will Ferrell). Reese, though no angel herself, does not approve of this ad hoc family. But she comes to appreciate her unlikely new "siblings" and, as secrets are revealed, comes to terms with her father and their shared past and future. -- © Focus Features