Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) on Netflix
In California, five women's lives intertwine: Dr. Elaine Keener cares for her aging mother, Christine reads tarot while her partner Lilly is ill, and Rebecca, a bank manager, becomes pregnant.
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Plot summary
Dr. Elaine Keener, a physician, looks after her invalid mother at home while the nurse is away and, coping with her own loneliness, seeks a tarot reading from Christine, whose partner Lilly is seriously ill. Rebecca Waynon, a bank manager three years into an involvement with a married man, Robert, becomes pregnant and comes to Dr. Keener for an abortion. Rose, a divorced mother who writes children's books, develops a crush on Albert, a little-person neighbor across the street, and raises her teenage son Jay. Detective Kathy Faber and her partner work the case of an unknown woman's apparent suicide, and Kathy lives with her blind sister Carol, who has an active social and professional life.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
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- The script reached Glenn Close and Holly Hunter through director Jon Avnet, whom writer-director Rodrigo García had met while workshopping it at the 1999 Sundance Institute's Writers and Filmmakers Lab; within months Close, Hunter and actor Kathy Baker all signed on.
- MGM Distribution Co. had planned a theatrical release but decided Sundance and Cannes acclaim did not justify a theater run and sent the film to Showtime instead, drawing criticism from critics and festival directors who said the company failed to capitalize on its festival momentum.
