Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael is a 1990 American comedy drama film that was directed by Jim Abrahams. It stars Winona Ryder and Jeff Daniels.
Plot
Dinky Bossetti is a 15-year-old girl who was adopted as a baby and is constantly picked on at school. Dinky's antisocial attitude and behavior is caused by her intelligence, her adoptive parents not accepting her for who she is, and being bullied by her peers. Dinky's adoptive mother Rochelle is disappointed that her daughter has no interest in "feminine" things, such as makeup and nice clothing. Her adoptive father, Les, passively allows his wife to scold Dinky and send her to various "counselors" who are little more than temporary jailers. Her teachers give her no support when classmates ostracize, taunt, and throw things at her. Dinky enjoys thumbing her nose at her peers and embarrasses Gerald, a cute popular boy, by reading a condescending love poem to him in class.
More details
| author | Karen Leigh Hopkins |
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| contentLocation | Ohio |
| director | http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q448604 |
| editor | Bruce Green |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | abandon adopt adoptive father adoptive mother adoptive parents boarding school build bully clothe new life new school obsess read |
| musicBy | Melissa Etheridge |
| producer | Penney Finkelman Cox |
| productionCompany | ITC Entertainment Los Angeles Times |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | independent satirical |