The Young Girl and the Monsoon

The Young Girl and the Monsoon is a 1999 comedy-drama film from Monsoon Productions and starring Terry Kinney and Ellen Muth. Writer-director, James Ryan, won Best Screenplay and the Gold Medal at the Wine Country Film Festival in 2000 for the film.

Cast

• Terry Kinney as Hank
• Ellen Muth as Constance
• Mili Avital as Erin
• Tim Guinee as Jack
• Diane Venora as Giovanna

Release

The film was first shown at the AFI Film Festival on 25 October 1999, then at the Santa Barbara Film Festival on 4 March 2000, followed by the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival on 15 April 2000. It was released in New York City on 4 May 2001.^[1]

Plot

The Young Girl and the Monsoon centers around a fraught relationship between father and daughter. Hank a 39-year-old photo-journalist (Kinney) has agreed to look after his 13-year-old daughter Constance (Muth) for several weeks, while his ex-wife goes on a holiday with her new husband. Hank has compartmentalized his life in such a way that his daughter doesn't know anything about his 26-year-old girlfriend, Erin (Avital). Suddenly Erin wants to marry Hank and have his children, but he can't cope and drops her.

Just as Hank has a chance of winning a prestigious journalistic award, he finds his private life a little too much to handle. His daughter cannot understand how he can take war photographs and not do anything about what he photographs. She is going through the emotional swings of a growing adolescent and the scenes between father and daughter, Kinney and Muth, are seen as the most impressive aspect of the film.^[2]

References

External links

• The Young Girl and the Monsoon at the Internet Movie Database
• The Young Girl and the Monsoon at AllMovie
• The Young Girl and the Monsoon at Rotten Tomatoes.