The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)

The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom 2011 Its 1976, and Elizabeth is just your average suburban eleven year old praying for adolescence to arrive when she discovers her whole life has been a lie With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity Her adoptive mother Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed truth, to which shes been clinging, and go after her daughter This leads to a cathartic cross country trek by a mother searching for a daughter whos searching for a mother, both of them really searching for themselves This movie is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female, coming of age story that explores the tension between creating identity, and finding it within