Actress Joey Lauren Adams high-pitched voice turned many viewers away from an otherwise impressive performance in Kevin Smith's modern classic "Chasing Amy". Ten years later she's gathered up a surge of creative energy, passion, and youthful exuberance for the place of her birth with her directorial debut, "Come Early Morning". The film stars Ashley Judd, in a familiar Southern role as seen in strong turns in "Ruby in Paradise" and "Where the Heart is", as a thirty-something woman living in small town Arkansas disconnected from her father and yearning for more than just another one-night stand. It's a quiet independent film about people with real jobs who live in real houses where the refrigerator won't close properly without that extra shove. The film hardly paves any new ground, but it's backed by such genuine emotion that it holds its own quite well.
Review of Come Early Morning
