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Housekeeping is a 1987 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth, starring Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, and Andrea Burchill. Based on Marilynne Robinson's 1980 novel Housekeeping, it is about two young sisters growing up in Idaho in the 1950s.
Feb 5, 1988 · Housekeeping: Directed by Bill Forsyth. With Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, Andrea Burchill, Anne Pitoniak. After their mother commits suicide, two sisters end up living with their kind but peculiar aunt in their grandmother's old house in a small 1950s town.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Bill Forsyth
- 1988-02-05
Jan 9, 2016 · 176. 28K views 8 years ago. Trailer for Bill Forsyth's "Housekeeping" (1987), starring Christine Lahti. ...more.
- 2 min
- 28.3K
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
The townspeople are not evil, merely conventional and “concerned.” Parties of church ladies visit to see if they can “help.” The sheriff eventually gets involved. But “Housekeeping” is not a realistic movie, not one of those disease-of-the-week docudramas with a tidy solution.
Lucille (Andrea Burchill) and Ruth (Sara Walker) come to live with their off-the-wall Aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti) after their mother kills herself. From sleeping on park benches to methodically...
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- Bill Forsyth
- PG
- Christine Lahti
Utterly offbeat and quirky, Bill Forsyth's funny and often touching film stars Christine Lahti as an eccentric aunt who comes out to the Pacific Northwest to...
Housekeeping. Utterly offbeat and quirky, Bill Forsyth's funny and often touching film stars Christine Lahti as an eccentric aunt who comes out to the Pacific Northwest to live with her orphaned nieces.
