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| Directed by | Edward Zwick |
| Produced by | Sydney Pollack Lindsey Doran Fitch Cady Sarah Caplan |
| Written by | Ed Solomon |
| Starring | Meg Tilly Christine Lahti Patrika Darbo Lenny von Dohlen Maury Chaykin Brett Cullen James Gammon |
| Music by | W. G Snuffy Walden |
| Cinematography | Ralf D. Bode |
| Editing by | Victor DuBois |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 29, 1992 |
| Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,514,114 |
Leaving Normal was a 1992 American road movie which featured two female leads. Directed by Edward Zwick and written by Ed Solomon, the film's plot resembled the more commercially-lucrative 1991 film Thelma & Louise. It starred Meg Tilly as Marianne Johnson and Christine Lahti as Darly Peters, and co-starred an iconic cast fitting to the rugged geography of remote Canada and Alaska. [1][2]
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Tilly and Lahti star in this female buddy story where Tilly plays a child-like 20-something who has just walked out on her abusive husband. Darly is fleeing a life as a waitress and stripper and is on her way to Alaska to claim a home and family she abandoned eighteen years earlier after giving birth. The two run into each other on the road and Darly welcomes the company as they head north from Wyoming. Their journey is spotted with whom they meet and their insightful dialogue on how their lives compare.
The women finally make it to Alaska, where Darly finds that the house she was expecting to find has never been built. The two set up in a house trailer Darly is towing and start living on the outskirts of the fictional Palmer Valley. The film ends with both accepting the location as a home fate has drawn them to.
The primary filming locations for the movie were in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as well as in Yoho National Park, British Columbia.[3]
The film received mixed-to-negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave Leaving Normal 29% out of 100.[4] As of 2010, Leaving Normal was never released on DVD, but is on YouTube in a low-res, one-file format.[1]
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