Come Early Morning (2006)

Original Title :	Come Early Morning
Director :	Joey Lauren Adams
Writer :	Joey Lauren Adams
Genre :	Drama
	Romance
Country :	USA
Language :	English
Producer :	Edward Bass, Dan Etheridge, Daniel Grodnik, Michel Litvak, D. Scott Lumpkin, Grant McFadden, Julie Silverman, Laura D. Smith, Gary Michael Walters, Holly Wiersma
Music :	Alan Brewer
Photography :	Tim Orr
Distributor :	Bold Films, Roadside Attractions
MPAA Rating :	Rated R for language and some sexual situations.
IMDB ID :	0457308
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poster for "Come Early Morning" by Joey Lauren Adams (2006)

Come Early Morning (2006) - Joey Lauren Adams

Starring

Ashley Judd		Lucy Fowler
Jeffrey Donovan		Cal Percell
Laura Prepon		Kim
Diane Ladd		Nana
Scott Wilson		Lowell Fowler
Stacy Keach		Owen Allen
Pat Corley		Papa
Ray McKinnon		Toby
Candyce Hinkle		Doll
Wally Welch		Eli
Jeff Nichols		Lee Young
Christine Renee Ward		Sue
Tim Blake Nelson		Uncle Tim
Jason T. Davis		Motel Man
Richard Lee Crow		Motel Clerk
Ritchie Montgomery		Bob
Nancy Ellen Mills		Michelle
Chuck Borden		Man with Michelle
Ann Marie Hall		Vet Receptionist
James Cotten		Steve
Jason Davis		Mickey (as Jason A. Davis)
Kelly Adams		Woman at Cal's
Darlene Baker		Linda
Joshua Payne		Cap Guy
Bryan Ledford		Church Band Member
Justin Showah		Church Band Member
Cary Hudson		Church Band Member
Ted Gainey		Church Band Member
Jeannie Max Lane		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
Troy Cook		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
Steve Williams		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
Tony Reaves		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
Tim Wilson		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
J.D. McIntyre		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
Jan Ainley		Bar Patron / Line Dancer
Madison Ainley		Bar Patron / Line Dancer
Jennifer Elaine Black		Church Member / Bar Patron
Van Wayne Black Sr.		Bar Patron
Alan Brewer		Church Member / Resident
Michelle Brewer		Church Member / Resident
Tony L. Brown		Bar Patron / Line Dancer
Rick Dial		Mike
Kathleen LaGue		Voices / Voice Casting
Betsy Lavender		Church Member
Josue Lopez		Church-goer "Extra"
Steve McReardon		Jesse
Arnold John Popa III		Church Member
Suzanne Shaye		Bar patron / church member
Amanda Sickler		Additional voices
Doug Swander		Additional Voices
John Weeks		Bar Patron
Michael Witham		Church Member (uncredited)

Plot

The sins of the fathers. In a town near Little Rock, Lucy Fowler works hard for a construction firm, on weekends she drinks, goes home with someone, and come early morning, wakes and leaves as fast as she can. She cares a lot about her father, newly back in town, a painfully shy man who has nothing to say to her. She does go to a Holy Roller church with him about the same time that she starts, fitfully, a relationship with Cal Percell, new in town and a good guy. She kisses him sober, but still has demons to confront. What's the source of her careless ways, can she turn coal into a diamond?

Comments

Ashley Judd gives a remarkable performance in this film but there are lots of other reasons to see it. Indeed, the music is very good, and there is a CD soundtrack (I checked Amazon as soon as I came home).There are many painful moments as an extended and frayed family tries to talk to each other, or avoid it. It's about being stuck in old patterns and being clueless about making changes, no matter how old the people are.I know one reason the film got local buzz is because it was filmed here, but as someone who hasn't lived in AR long, I was just an average movie goer looking to see Judd in something that was not a highly charged thriller. Ruby in Paradise (1993) was the first time I ever saw her, and that film about how to survive when no matter what you do doesn't seem enough, showed her talent. Come Early Morning evoked the same feelings.The whole project seems a labor of love, love of real people living ordinary lives and doing the best they can.