Come Early Morning DVD 2007

      The setting of this film is a small town near Little Rock Arkansas.  Lucy is 30 in her 30's and she works for a construction firm.  On the weekends she goes to bars and she drinks.  She meets someone at a bar, goes home with them and then she sneaks away in the early morning.  She insists on paying for the motel room and she gets a cab to take her home.  Lucy cares a LOT about her father and he has just come back to town.  He is painfully shy and he doesn’t have much to say to Lucy.  She goes to church with him on Sunday mornings.  Her Nana lives nearby and she goes to visit her a lot too.  Lucy meets Cal Percell and tries to work with her on her self-destructive behavior patterns.

     Lucy has a LOT of baggage from her past in this film.  Cal gives it his best shot but he doesn’t know if he can break down her inner and outer walls.  Lucy works hard at her job and she’s good at it.  She doesn’t know how to get over her past and change her current behavior.  She wants to change but she doesn’t know if she can.  It's easier to stay the same?  3* (This movie is OK)    

97 min, Drama written and directed by Joey Lauren Adams with Ashley Judd, Stacy Keach, Jeffrey Donovan, Tim Blake Nelson, Richard Lee Crow, Laura Prepon, Christine Renee Ward, Candyce Hinkle, Scott Wilson, Pat Corley, Diane Ladd, Wally Welch, Ritchie Montgomery, Jeffrey Donovan, Rick Dial.

Note:  Imdb 6.2 out of 10, 83% critic 48% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic 64 out of 100 with 16 critics 7.5 out of 10 with 10 reviews, Slant Magazine 2* out of 4*, MovieGuide.org, moderate language, light violence, moderate sex, light nudity, quality 2* out of 4* content -3, Amazon 3.9* out of 5* with 59 reviews. 

Special Note:  Filmed in Little Rock, Arkansas.  It took Joey Lauren Adams five years to raise the necessary budget to make this film.  After Ashley Judd committed to star in the film, Joey was able to secure six million dollars.  Then, she had only five weeks to prep the film.  The films Tender Mercies of 1983 and Urban Cowboy of 1980 influenced Joey in her writing.  The original title was Lovin Up a Storm after the Jerry Lee Lewis song.  Premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.