Manny and Lo
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Cast & Crew
Lisa Krueger
Mary Kay Place
Scarlett Johansson
Aleksa Palladino
Paul Guilfoyle
Glenn Fitzgerald
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Synopsis
11-year-old Amanda and 16-year-old Laurel are motherless sisters who have reunited after running away from separate foster homes. The outwardly tough "Lo" believes she's always right when she's almost always wrong. "Manny," the more logical sister, ignores her own firm grasp of reality in order to stand by Lo. Driving from town to town in a station wagon, shoplifting from convenience stores, and spending the night in unoccupied model homes, they eke out a precarious life on the road. However, even the most resourceful children hit stumbling blocks. So when Lo finds herself pregnant, she convinces her sister to aid her in taking a hostage. The hostage in question, Elaine, is a maternity shop clerk who presents herself as the world's ultimate authority on motherhood. But Elaine is very different from what she appears to be.
Director
Lisa Krueger
Cast
Mary Kay Place
Scarlett Johansson
Aleksa Palladino
Paul Guilfoyle
Glenn Fitzgerald
Cameron Boyd
Novella Nelson
Angie Phillips
Monica Smith
Dean Silvers
Marlen Hecht
Forrest Silvers
Tyler Silvers
Lisa Campion
Susan Decker
Marla Zuk
Bonnie Johnson
Melissa Johnson
Melanie Johansson
Karsten Johansson
Hunter Johansson
Vanessa Johansson
David Destaebler
Marc Palmieri
Tony Arnaud
Nicholas Lent
Crew
Tony Arnaud
Michael Begasse
Steven R Bernstein
Steven R Bernstein
Thomas Clark
Wendy Jo Cohen
Keith Croket
Wendy Dallas
Phillipa Davis
Robert Fernandez
James Flatto
Dina Goldman
Pope Entertainment Group
Lloyd Handworker
Marlen Hecht
Jocelyn Jansons
Rozano Johnson
Gary Kauffman
Richard King
Lisa Krueger
Tom Krueger
George W Larkin
Sharon Lomofsky
Claudia Lorka
John Lurie
Anke Menzel
Jennifer Parker
Ellen Parks
Colleen Sharp
Dean Silvers
Frances Sorensen
Frances Sorensen
Irin Strauss
Michael Ventresco
Klaus Volkenborn
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Released in United States 1996
Released in United States August 2, 1996
Released in United States January 1996
Released in United States October 1996
Released in United States on Video January 21, 1997
Released in United States Summer July 26, 1996
Shown at Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema April 26 - May 3, 1996.
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 22 - September 2, 1996.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (American Spectrum) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 1996.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival October 4-20, 1996.
Feature film directorial debut for Lisa Krueger, originally from San Francisco, who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and later continued her film studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She worked as a script supervisor for such directors as Jim Jarmusch, Abel Ferrara, and James Ivory. Her short film "Best Offer" won awards at the San Francisco Film Festival, the Chicago Film Festival, Houston Worldfest and Oberhausen.
Lisa Krueger received the Independent Feature Project's 1996 Open Palm Award, given to an emerging filmmaker who has struggled to complete his or her first feature and whose film has a marked impact on the independent film world.
Began shooting July 31, 1995.
Completed shooting September 2, 1995.
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Boston International Festival of Women's Cinema April 26 - May 3, 1996.)
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 22 - September 2, 1996.)
Released in United States January 1996 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (American Spectrum) in Park City, Utah January 18-28, 1996.)
Released in United States on Video January 21, 1997
Released in United States Summer July 26, 1996
Released in United States August 2, 1996 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival October 4-20, 1996.)
