This award-winning documentary is a portrait of a girl becoming her own woman and asserting her creative force into the world. Rebelling against her old world Greek mother, fighting the feeling she was “too ethnic”, and starting her own theatre company instead of waiting for jobs, Olympia Dukakis models how to live life with courage. As fellow actors Laura Linney, Diane Ladd and Whoopi Goldberg testify, Olympia is “totally open and crazy”, which is the marker of her absolute sanity.
