Hi-Line (film)
- Ryan Alosio: Sam Polvino
- Tantoo Cardinal: singing bird
- Rachael Leigh Cook: Vera Johnson
- Tom Hanson: 1 drinkers
- Rainer Judd: Martha
- Albert J. Kalanick: 2 drinker
- Margot Kidder: Laura Johnson
- Stuart Margolin: Clyde Johnson
The Hi -Line is an American film drama by Ron Judkins from the year 1999.
Action
Vera Johnson lives in a small town in Montana; she wants to move and work as a model. Johnson learns Sam Polvino know who claims to work as a talent scout for a Chicago department store. Johnson's parents Laura and Clyde try to expel the man from the city.
Vera learns of Polvino that she was adopted and Laura and Clyde are not their biological parents. He proves this with a letter, which he owns. It turns out that he was asked by a friend in prison to find Vera. Vera's biological father is in the same prison as Polvinos from friend and is dying.
Vera and Sam fall in love. She gets to know her real mother, the Indian woman singing bird that lives in a rundown, as Hi-Line designated area.
Reviews
James Brundage wrote on www.filmcritic.com, which operated as a director Ron Judkins was known as Tonexperte. The story was " outrageously simplistic ", but the movie was " surprisingly " not particularly bad. Ryan Alosio games " very impressive." Large parts of the film were original, he end but after the familiar Hollywood pattern.
Awards
Ron Judkins was nominated in 1999 for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Ryan Alosio won the 1999 Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival in two categories. Rachael Leigh Cook and the photography Wally Pfister won in 2000 prices of the Santa Monica Film Festival.
Background
The film was shot in Chicago and in some places in Montana. It had its world premiere in January 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival.