Ave storms off, offended that he doesn't even think she's worth being courted. He tells her that they ought to get married. They take an evening walk and he tells her that he broke up with Sue, as he has always had a crush on the little Italian girl that sat beside him in elementary school. Jack admits he wants the love that his parents had, does not love Sue but does care for her two young boys. Meanwhile, Jack's mother confronts him about Sweet Sue, whom she dislikes. He accepts her offer of a lift home but Sweet Sue arrives and jumps into his arms, shrugging off Ave.Īve stumbles across old love letters between her momma and her real father, causing Ave's best friend, town librarian and local romantic Iva Lou, to confront her about non-existent love life. They spend an awkward night together, with a stilted goodbye the next morning.Īve helps deal with an explosion at the mine, worrying about Jack until finding him safe at the hospital. He's so happy he kisses Ave in front of everyone then leads her away. Ave embarrasses the brats then offers Pearl a job at the pharmacy.ĭuring the cast after-party for “Lonesome Pine”, it is announced that senatorial hopeful John Warner will make a campaign stop in town with his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, and Theodore will plan the event. She met and married Fred Mulligan, who knew she was pregnant and never much liked Ave.Īt the pharmacy, some popular teenage girl customers direct rude comments at Pearl Grimes, a poor teenager who is a Melungeon.
Her momma fled to America when she became pregnant. At the graveside Fleeta Mullins, Ave's outspoken friend and pharmacy worker, chastises Ave for placing a rose on her father's grave, remarking how badly he had treated Ave.Īve is shocked when her momma's will has a photo of her real father, who still lives in Italy. Spec Broadwater, the town's lawyer and Ave's friend, brings news that her momma has died. Jack tries to make small talk, but Ave leaves when Nan tells her that 40 is not too old to still have children. Ave delivers medications to Nan McChesney and is pleased to see Nan's son Jack, a local coal miner and a former schoolmate. Ave is heavily involved in her community, home delivering medications to the country folk, volunteering on the coal mining town's Emergency Response Team, and directing the town's annual production of "Trail of the Lonesome Pine", based on the novel by John Fox Jr. Ave's mother, an immigrant from Italy, is the town seamstress. In 1978, 40-year-old independent woman Ave Maria Mulligan owns her dead father's pharmacy in her hometown of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The film was released in Blu-Ray by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment on February 2, 2016.
The film was released on October 9, 2015, by Picturehouse.
The film had its world premiere at the Virginia Film Festival on November 6, 2014. Based on Trigiani's 2000 best-selling novel of the same name, the story is set in the actual Virginia town of Big Stone Gap circa 1970s. Big Stone Gap is a 2014 American drama romantic comedy film written and directed by Adriana Trigiani and produced by Donna Gigliotti for Altar Identity Studios, a subsidiary of Media Society.
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