Movie Review Tallulah 2016 Sundance Film

Ellen Page plays a rootless drifter who kidnaps a baby girl from the kid’s trainwreck of a mother (Tammy Blanchard) and finds a temporary home of sorts with Allison Janney’s jilted wife in the effective comedy-drama Tallulah. A directorial debut for Sian Heder, a writer-producer on Orange Is the New Black, Tallulah admirably challenges received wisdom about maternal feelings. It also takes gutsy risks with potentially dislikable main characters, all of whom are women, played with bravura skill by the three leads. There’s so much to root for here it’s painful to concede there’s some hideously on-the-nose, spell-out-the-motivation-in-capital-letters writing that lowers the tone. However, that obviousness won’t hurt its crossover potential one jot, and for a low-budget indie debut, this has bags of Juno-style commercial potential.

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Production: A Route One Entertainment presentation of a Maiden Voyage Pictures Production in association with Ocean Blue Entertainment
Cast: Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Tammy Blanchard, Evan Jonigkeit, Uzo Aduba, Felix Solis, Frederic Lehne, John Benjamin Hickey, David Zayas, Zachary Quinto
Director-screenwriter: Sian Heder
Producers: Heather Rae, Chris Columbus, Russell Levine, Todd Traina
Executive producers: Eleanor Columbus, Chris Lytton, David Newsom, Charlotte Ubben, Mark Burton, Paull Cho, Ellen Page
Director of photography: Paula Huidobro
Editor: Darrin Navarro
Production designer: Sara K. White
Costume designer: Brenda Abbandandolo
Music: Michael Brook
Music supervisor: Laura Katz
Casting: Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Conrad Woolfe
Sales: Good Universe

Not rated, 111 minutes