Stephanie Daley
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| Stephanie Daley | |
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 Promotional poster for Stephanie Daley |
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| Directed by | Hilary Brougher |
| Written by | Hilary Brougher |
| Starring | Amber Tamblyn Tilda Swinton Timothy Hutton |
| Music by | David Mansfield |
| Cinematography | David Rush Morrison |
| Editing by | Keith Reamer |
| Distributed by | Regent Releasing |
| Release date(s) | April 20, 2007 |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Stephanie Daley is an award-winning 2006 film starring Amber Tamblyn, Tilda Swinton and Timothy Hutton. The film, scheduled for a limited release in North America on April 20, 2007, focuses on the issue of teenage pregnancy. Stephanie Daley was developed at the Sundance Writers' and Filmmakers' Lab, and premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.[1] The film also earned Tamblyn a nomination for best supporting female at the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards[2] and the Leopard prize for best actress at the 2006 Locarno film festival.[3]
[edit] Plot outline
Stephanie Daley, a sixteen-year-old girl, collapses in a pool of blood whilst on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon after this the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.
Awaiting trial, Stephanie is interviewed by a psychologist, Lydie Crane. Crane's marriage is floundering, her husband having an affair, as a result of the couple's struggle to have children - Crane having recently given birth to a stillborn child. As Stephanie discusses her sexual history and her relationship with her parents and her child, Lydie is forced to face her hitherto buried emotions about her own child.
