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For Ellen

For Ellen

2012Movie⏱️ 1h 34mNot Rated
Drama
6
IMDB Rating
2,382 votes

A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.

Director
So Yong Kim
Writers
N/A
Stars
Paul Dano, Margarita Levieva, Jon Heder
Release Date
September 19, 2012
Language
English
Country
United States
🏆 1
Wins
🎯 3
Nominations
💬 14
Reviews
📋 14.7K
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🎭 Top Cast

Paul Dano
Paul Dano
as Joby Taylor
Margarita Levieva
Margarita Levieva
as Claire Taylor
Jon Heder
Jon Heder
as Fred Butler
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Peter Roberts
as Tow-Truck Guy
👤
William Roberts
as Tow-Truck Guy
Julian Gamble
Julian Gamble
as Mr. Hamilton
Dakota Johnson
Dakota Johnson
as Cindy
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Ronald Walter Mandigo
as Claire Taylor's Fiancé
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Mara Pelifian
as Mrs. Butler
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Shaylena Mandigo
as Ellen Taylor

💰 Box Office

$20,746
Worldwide Gross
$12,396
Domestic Gross
$4,616
Opening Weekend

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
2.35 : 1
Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Filming Location
Massena, New York, USA
Production
Deerjen Films, RCR Media Group

🏷️ Keywords

wifeyoung6 year old daughtername in titlepsychological drama

🎯 Categories

Psychological DramaDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Is no one going to talk about how the ending is totally ripped off from Five Easy Pieces?
by johnpmoseley2021-08-25
2/10

"Why would you do that? Why would you filch the ending from an all-time classic when it doesn't even make sense in your own story and it's anyway only going to underline how vastly inferior your film is? It's strangely maddening to me. But at least, at the end of a hopelessly pointless film about a sad guy drifting around entirely uninterestingly, it reminds us that slice-of-life character studies like this can actually work...."

💡 Did You Know?

So Yong Kim's previous films, In Between Days (2006) and Treeless Mountain (2008), both dealt with the repercussions of having absentee fathers. Here, she tackles a similar subject but this time from the point of view of the absentee father himself.

📖 Synopsis

A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.