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Park City,
Utah
In
Stephanie Daley, Tamblyn plays a young woman who may have killed her baby.
Tilda
Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia as the White Witch), co-stars as the
psychologist who must sift through Daley's repressed memories of the child's
death.
Timothy
Hutton plays Swinton's husband, who is coping with his own emotions after
their
baby is stillborn.
For
Hutton, the reaction people have had to Stephanie Daley reminds him of how
moviegoers reacted to his first film, 1980's Ordinary People, which won its
director, Sundance founder Robert Redford, an Oscar.
Tamblyn,
last seen in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, says, "Stephanie
Daley
is rarity. There are maybe three or four scripts that come out a script that
are
this good. We were lucky we were able to find it."
As
impressed with director Hilary Brougher's script as she was, it was learning
Swinton was going to be her co-star that cemented the deal for Tamblyn.
"I'm
a big fan of hers. Tilda is very selective about what she does. It only
reinforced the feeling I had about the movie, finding out she was doing
it."
Tamblyn filmed the drama last fall after
finishing work on Joan of Arcadia, the series that landed her an Emmy
nomination. Comparing the big and small screens, she says,
"television is like a machine. It's 'Let's get it done' and maybe the
people they hire aren't necessarily the best people for the part. It's
filling a
spot. So it was
really
nice to know I was going to be challenged by another actress who I consider
like
a Meryl Streep."
jam.canoe.ca
1/26/06
By KEVIN WILLIAMSON - Calgary
Sun
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