Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

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
Edited by	Sabine Hoffmann
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	January 12, 2002 (2002-01-12) (Sundance) November 22, 2002 (2002-11-22)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$125,000
Box office	$811,299[1]

Personal Velocity: Three Portraits is a 2002 American independent film written and directed by Rebecca Miller.

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 unfaithful 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.

Cast

• Kyra Sedgwick as Delia Shunt
• Parker Posey as Greta Herskowitz
• Fairuza Balk as Paula
• John Ventimiglia as Narrator
• Ron Leibman as Avram Herskovitz
• Wallace Shawn as Mr. Gelb
• David Warshofsky as Kurt Wurtzle
• Leo Fitzpatrick as Mylert
• Tim Guinee as Lee

Awards

Personal Velocity won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film and the Cinematography Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

References

External links

• Personal Velocity: Three Portraits website
• Personal Velocity: Three Portraits at AllMovie
• Personal Velocity: Three Portraits on IMDb