For Ellen (2012) on Netflix
Joby Taylor, a struggling rock musician, has driven overnight to a small town. Lawyers and his ex-wife are waiting there. Custody of his daughter, Ellen, is at stake.
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- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.0/102,413 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes67%
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Joby Taylor is a struggling rock musician whose career has foundered. He has driven overnight to a small town, where he is to divorce his estranged wife. Lawyers and his ex-wife are waiting for him there. He has not been around to be a dad. Custody of his daughter, Ellen, could be lost, and the meeting is his last chance to argue for shared custody.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about For Ellen (2012)
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- So Yong Kim called the film her most personal, saying making it was "something of a therapy, yet also a torture" because it drew on her memory of her estranged father visiting her and her siblings for one day.
- So Yong Kim first wrote the script for an Asian man in his sixties, but her friend Paul Dano read it and decided he wanted the lead role; she said little was changed from what was already written.
