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Rich in Love
Directed by	Bruce Beresford
Produced by	Richard D. Zanuck Lili Fini Zanuck
Starring	Albert Finney Katherine Erbe Jill Clayburgh Kyle MacLachlan Suzy Amis Ethan Hawke
Cinematography	Peter James
Distributed by	MGM studios
Release date(s)	March 5, 1993 US May 7, 1993 UK May 27, 1993 Australia
Running time	105 minutes

Rich in Love is a 1993 drama film based on the 1987 novel with the same name by Josephine Humphreys. The film stars Albert Finney, Katherine Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, Jill Clayburgh, Suzy Amis, and Ethan Hawke.

Plot

The movie takes place in Charleston, South Carolina, where the Odom family lives in a large, white, Southern house. The movie is about teenager Lucille Odom (Erbe) who is in her last year of high school when mother, Helen Odom (Clayburgh), leaves the family, breaking all ties, and with Lucille being left in the care of her father, Warren Odom (Finney). The family then spends the summer trying to get their lives together, which is complicated when the older daughter of the family, Rae (Amis), moves back home with a husband (MacLachlan) and a new baby on the way, about whom Rae has mixed feelings.

Cast

• Albert Finney as Warren Odom
• Jill Clayburgh as Helen Odom
• Kathryn Erbe as Lucille Odom
• Kyle MacLachlan as Billy McQueen
• Piper Laurie as Vera Delmage
• Ethan Hawke as Wayne Frobiness
• Suzy Amis as Rae Odom

Reception

The film received mostly positive reviews.^[1] One drawback, however, was that many did not find the story believable, as the family's problems and happy ending were something of a fantasy. For example, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, giving the film three stars out of four, wrote "I must confess I didn't much believe the story".^[2]

Home media

The film was released on DVD via Amazon’s On-Demand service on December 15, 2009.^[3][4]

References

External links

• Rich in Love at the Internet Movie Database
• Rich in Love at Rotten Tomatoes