Anywhere But Here (1999) on Netflix
Adele August uproots her daughter Ann from small-town Wisconsin and moves to Beverly Hills, set on a Hollywood career for the girl. Ann would rather go to Brown University.
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Plot summary
Tired of her small Wisconsin town and of her second husband, Adele August packs up her teenage daughter Ann and moves them both to Beverly Hills, where she dreams of a Hollywood career for the girl. Ann is a serious student aiming for Brown University on the East Coast. The two rent a run-down apartment, and Adele finds work as a speech therapist at a school in a rough neighborhood. She spends money she does not have and makes decisions on impulse, and Ann tires of the way her mother lives. Adele meets Josh, an orthodontist, during an afternoon at the beach.
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- Samantha Goldsteinas 4 Year Old Ann
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Anywhere But Here (1999)
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- Anywhere but Here was originally developed at Disney in the late 1980s as a star vehicle for Meryl Streep, but Streep chose to make Postcards from the Edge instead, and the project sat stalled for nearly a decade until 20th Century Fox revived it with Susan Sarandon in the lead.
- Natalie Portman left the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank to take the co-lead, but the then-17-year-old said she would not do the film if it required a nude love scene; Susan Sarandon, who had casting approval, made honoring that condition a term of her own participation, and writer Alvin Sargent rewrote the scene so Portman could join.
- Director Wayne Wang initially kept darker material from Mona Simpson's novel in the film, including a suggestion of domestic abuse, but after test audiences reacted badly he and screenwriter Alvin Sargent reworked the film to soften the mother-daughter relationship.
