CERTAIN WOMEN

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• Release Year: 2016
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The expanses of the American West take center stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from three short stories by Maile Meloy and unfolding in self-contained but interlocking episodes, Certain Women navigates the subtle shifts in personal desire and social expectation that unsettle the circumscribed lives of its characters: a lawyer (Laura Dern) forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother (Michelle Williams) whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a night-school teacher (Kristen Stewart) who forms a tenuous bond with a lonely ranch hand (Lily Gladstone), whose longing for connection delivers an unexpected jolt of emotional immediacy. With unassuming craft, Reichardt captures the rhythms of daily life in small-town Montana through these fine-grained portraits of women trapped within the landscape's wide-open spaces.
• Cast: Laura Dern, James Le Gros, Jared Harris, Ashlie Atkinson, Guy Boyd, Edelen McWilliams, John Getz, James Jordan, Matt McTighe, Joshua T. Fonokalafi, Michelle Williams, Sara Rodier, Rene Auberjonois, Lily Gladstone, Stephanie Campbell, Kilty Reidy, Kristen Stewart, Marceline Hugot, Zena Dell Lowe, Gabriel Clark, Kory Gunderson, Kelly Reichardt, Maile Meloy
• Director: Kelly Reichardt
• Runtime: 1:47
• Company: IFC Films
• Media Format: Movie