Overview

When his wife dies young, Canadian immigrant ironworker, Jim Fulton, is left with four children he hardly knows and a neighborhood of relatives willing to help raise them. But his stubborn independence keeps getting in his way as he grapples clumsily with a world changing fast and sometimes violently. Set in the Long Island suburbs and up on the girders of the Manhattan skyline in the early 1970's, Motherless Children is both a riotous family saga and a sobering confrontation with the 20th century white American working class as it struggles to overcome inherited prejudice.

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"""Hartley combines a rigorous social conscience with the exuberance of fresh comic thinking."" (Rolling Stone)"

Hartley combines a rigorous social conscience with the exuberance of fresh comic thinking. (Rolling Stone)

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Hal Hartley is the writer, director and producer of numerous feature films. He received the best screenplay award at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1998 for Henry Fool as well as prizes at Sundance (Trust), Tokyo (Amateur), Prague (Meanwhile) and Berlin (Ned Rifle). He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des lettres of the Republic of France and an alumnus of the American Academy in Berlin. He paid for much of his college education working as an apprentice ironworker between 1981 and 1985. He lives in New York City.

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