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

ÂAshley Judd		Lucy Fowler
ÂJeffrey Donovan		Cal Percell
ÂLaura Prepon		Kim
ÂDiane Ladd		Nana
ÂScott Wilson		Lowell Fowler
ÂStacy Keach		Owen Allen
ÂPat Corley		Papa
ÂRay McKinnon		Toby
ÂCandyce Hinkle		Doll
ÂWally Welch		Eli
ÂJeff Nichols		Lee Young
ÂChristine Renee Ward		Sue
ÂTim Blake Nelson		Uncle Tim
ÂJason T. Davis		Motel Man
ÂRichard Lee Crow		Motel Clerk
ÂRitchie Montgomery		Bob
ÂNancy Ellen Mills		Michelle
ÂChuck Borden		Man with Michelle
ÂAnn Marie Hall		Vet Receptionist
ÂJames Cotten		Steve
ÂJason Davis		Mickey (as Jason A. Davis)
ÂKelly Adams		Woman at Cal's
ÂDarlene Baker		Linda
ÂJoshua Payne		Cap Guy
ÂBryan Ledford		Church Band Member
ÂJustin Showah		Church Band Member
ÂCary Hudson		Church Band Member
ÂTed Gainey		Church Band Member
ÂJeannie Max Lane		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
ÂTroy Cook		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
ÂSteve Williams		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
ÂTony Reaves		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
ÂTim Wilson		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
ÂJ.D. McIntyre		Lyle's Starstudded Honky-Tonk Band
ÂJan Ainley		Bar Patron / Line Dancer
ÂMadison Ainley		Bar Patron / Line Dancer
ÂJennifer Elaine Black		Church Member / Bar Patron
ÂVan Wayne Black Sr.		Bar Patron
ÂAlan Brewer		Church Member / Resident
ÂMichelle Brewer		Church Member / Resident
ÂTony L. Brown		Bar Patron / Line Dancer
ÂRick Dial		Mike
ÂKathleen LaGue		Voices / Voice Casting
ÂBetsy Lavender		Church Member
ÂJosue Lopez		Church-goer "Extra"
ÂSteve McReardon		Jesse
ÂArnold John Popa III		Church Member
ÂSuzanne Shaye		Bar patron / church member
ÂAmanda Sickler		Additional voices
ÂDoug Swander		Additional Voices
ÂJohn Weeks		Bar Patron
ÂMichael 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.