Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

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Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
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Directed by	Rebecca Miller
Produced by	Alexis Alexanian Caroline Kaplan Jonathan Sehring John Sloss
Written by	Rebecca Miller
Starring	Kyra Sedgwick Parker Posey Fairuza Balk
Music by	Michael Rohatyn
Cinematography	Ellen Kuras
Editing by	Sabine Hoffmann
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	January 12, 2002 (premiere at Sundance) 22 November 2002 (limited) March 28, 2003 July 17, 2003
Running time	86 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	English
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Personal Velocity: Three Portraits, is a 2002 independent film written and directed by Rebecca Miller.

[edit] Plot

Personal Velocity is a tale of three women who have reached a turning point in their lives. Delia is a spirited, working-class woman from a small town in New York state who leaves her abusive husband and sets out on a journey to reclaim the power she has lost. Greta is a sharp, spunky editor who is rotten with ambition. To spite the hated infidel ways of her father, she has settled into a complacent relationship and is struggling (not too hard) with issues of fidelity to her kind but unexciting husband. Finally Paula, who ran away from home and got pregnant, is now in a relationship she doesn't want. She's a troubled young woman who takes off on a journey with a hitchhiker after a strange, fateful encounter on a New York street.