TIME TO REMEMBER, A

A holiday celebration offers an opportunity to heal old wounds for an estranged family on the mend.

Britt Calhoun (Emmy winner Dana Delany, China Beach) is a struggling Los Angeles artist and single mother who wants to live by her own rules. What her baby’s father, Nicholas (Robert Bauer, 54), wants is to reconcile with Britt, marry her, and have a “normal” life. But to her, the image of an all-American family is an illusion—one fostered by her own troubled family, living miles away and lifetimes apart. When Britt’s older sister Valetta (Megan Gallagher, The Larry Sanders Show) calls with the news that the Calhouns are reuniting for Thanksgiving, she resists. As the black sheep of the clan, she’s neither forgiven nor forgotten the volatile relationship with her well-manicured, socialite mother Maggie (Doris Roberts, Everybody Loves Raymond), a wealthy widow who’s devoted her life to keeping up appearances.

However, Britt knows that if she’s ever to have a productive future, she must come to terms with the past. With her son in tow, she returns home, hoping that things have changed. What she finds among her estranged siblings and in-laws is a family still in denial, still in turmoil, and still using silence as weapon. Into this brittle atmosphere erupts a startling revelation—Maggie is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Afraid and suddenly vulnerable after all these years, Maggie indeed wants to reconcile with Britt, get to know her grandson, answer Britt’s challenging questions about the past, and finally understand her daughter. On the eve of this illuminating Thanksgiving, Britt will not only come to know her family for the first time in her life, but to finally understand herself as well.

From Alpine Medien, directed by John Putch (Grounded for Life), comes a revelatory film about the truth and beauty of family that will resonate with anyone who ever wanted to belong and to be loved.