Love from Ground Zero (1998)

Director
Stephen Grynberg

Main cast
Simon Baker; Jacqueline McKenzie; Pruitt Taylor Vince; Kathryn Erbe; James Gammon

Genres
Drama

Description
Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a mutual friend. Using a series of old postcards as a map, the threesome drive from New York to Montana retracing their friend’s journey “out west” years before. As they try to make sense of the untimely death, they are forced to face the realities in their own lives that have brought them down this unpredictable road.


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