1. Official Website
2. Trailer

Combining the access only available to a family member with an intimate visual style of a filmmaker encountering the family's dynamics for the first time, the film gives a deeply personal voice to the national issues of economic instability, domestic abuse, war trauma, and sexual molestation. As the Moshers do their best to confront their ghosts, we confront the broader issues that haunt us all in the continued struggle for the American Dream.

• Director: Michael Palmieri
• Country: USA
• Genre: Documentary
• Year: 2010

• Run Time: 1:20:00
• imdb Score: 6.4/10 (30 votes)
• Language: English
• Rating: Not Rated

• Cast:

"Harrowing and hopeful. A powerful portrait of the American working poor and the dynamics that govern all families, regardless of economic class."
Michael O'Sullivan - WASHINGTON POST

"Fascinating. Probing. Sympathetic. Like a Joyce Carol Oates novel rendered as a documentary"
A.O. Scott - NEW YORK TIMES

"Five out of Five stars. Intimate yet larger-than-life, this masterpiece of the everyday shows you don’t need James Cameron’s toy box to make images pop from the screen, much less to see and embrace the world anew."
Kevin B. Lee - TIME OUT NEW YORK

"Manages to excavate enough universal pathos from the mundane to find something truly extraordinary in the ordinary."
Marc Mohan - PORTLAND OREGONIAN

"A beautiful evocation of a time and place and a loving but unflinching probing of the lives of Mosher's family in the course of a year."
Kevin Thomas - LOS ANGELES TIMES

AWARDS

Silverdocs 2009
Grand Jury Prize

Doc Lisboa 2009
Best First Feature

Starz Denver Festival 2009
Special Jury Prize and Maysles Award

Entre Vues, France 2009
Grand Jury Prize

FESTIVALS

True/False 2009

Los Angeles Film Festival 2009

Locarno Film Festival 2009

Sheffield 2009

Montreal RIDM 2009

Woodstock 2009

Amfest, Moscow 2009

Dok Leipzig 2009