Skipped Parts

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Skipped Parts

Directed by	Tamra Davis
Written by	Tim Sandlin
Starring	Jennifer Jason Leigh Mischa Barton Bug Hall Brad Renfro
Music by	Stewart Copeland
Cinematography	Claudio Rocha
Distributed by	Trimark Pictures
Release date(s)	January, 2001 (USA)
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
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Skipped Parts (also known as The Wonder of Sex in the UK) is a film about a group of characters living in a small Wyoming town. After making the film-festival rounds in 2000, it had a limited release by Trimark Pictures.

It was filmed in Regina, Saskatchewan.

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In 1963, a liberal-minded woman, Lydia, has a 14-year-old son, Sam. Lydia's father is running for governor of North Carolina, and he does not want Lydia and Sam in his way, so the two are banished from North Carolina. Arriving in Wyoming, Lydia only wants to have a good time and Sam is never allowed to call her "Mom" (she wants him to call her "Lydia").

Sam soon finds out that he is one of only two students in Grosvant High School who can read. The other one is Maurey, a girl at the same age as Sam who wants to learn about sex. Consequent to their mutual discoveries, Maurey becomes pregnant. Maury decides to have an abortion in a distant hospital, and by accident, her mother is also there with the same intent.

Maurey moves to Lydia's and Sam's house, since her father banishes her from his house. Meanwhile, Hank Elkrunner, a Blackfoot, falls for the feckless Lydia, while her dictatorial dad keeps tabs on them all from afar.

In the end, Maury decides not to have an abortion and keeps the baby, a little girl named Shannon.