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Love and Diane

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Love and Diane (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 30

Fresh: 29

Rotten:1

Average Rating: 7.8/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Synopsis: "Love & Diane" tells the epic story of a family over three generations. At its heart lies the highly charged relationship between a mother and daughter, desperate for love and forgiveness but struggling against implacable odds. For Love... "Love & Diane" tells the epic story of a family over three generations. At its heart lies the highly charged relationship between a mother and daughter, desperate for love and forgiveness but struggling against implacable odds. For Love the world changed forever when she and her siblings were torn from their drug-addicted mother, Diane, and thrust into a terrifying world of institutions and foster homes. Ten years have passed since that day. Love and her five siblings have been reunited with Diane again. But they are almost strangers to each other; all have been scarred by the years of separation. Now Love is 18 and HIV+. And she has just given birth to a son, Donyaeh. Consumed by guilt, Diane throws all her faith and will into rebuilding the family that her own drug addiction destroyed, as Love struggles to contain her overwhelming anger about the past. But when Diane confides her fears for her daughter to a therapist, suddenly the police are at the door. Donyaeh is taken from Love. To the family it is as if history has repeated itself. While the film takes us deep into the life of a single family, it also offers an unblinking look at the Byzantine "system" that aims to help but as often frustrates the family's attempts to improve their situation. "Love & Diane" tells the story of a mother struggling to bring her son home and of a family fighting for a chance at long-deferred dreams.

This film is a presentation of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). -- © Women Make Movies [More]

Director: Jennifer Dworkin

Director: Jennifer Dworkin
Producer: Jennifer Dworkin
Studio: Women Make Movies

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03/03/05
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04/26/04
Greg Muskewitz
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Compelling from beginning to end.

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09/26/03
Paul Doro
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Presents a story as insightful as it is harrowing.

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09/20/03
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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A powerful and important film.

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09/18/03
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Primarily of interest to those in the helping professions, Director Jennifer Dworkin presents this less as a case study than as a study in survival, and proves that strength of character often exists even in situations where abuse has occurred.

Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan | comment Comment
07/26/03
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan
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An eloquent, unaffected panegyric to a family which confronts every imaginable burden of poverty.

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07/22/03
Maria Garcia
Film Journal International
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There is meat of humanity here, love both true and forlorn, little shaping beyond the choice of what to include.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
07/11/03
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune
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Dworkin gives a compassionate face to the miasma of New York's family court-social services matrix.

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06/06/03
Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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It is a movie about the real challenge of heroism.

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06/06/03
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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A velvet-swaddled, iron-fisted documentary that will set standards of vérité filmmaking for years to come.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
05/28/03
John Anderson
Newsday
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["Love & Diane"] is an ideal documentary for a two-part POV on public television and is a remarkable feature for docu-maker Dworkin.

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05/27/03
Robin Clifford
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Vivid, accomplished and ultimately soul-touching.

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05/23/03
Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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both intimate and epic, a compelling observation of the labyrinthine state welfare systems which frustrate with cross purposes and the cyclical nature of abuse and neglect.

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05/18/03
Laura Clifford
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A serious and illuminating documentary that, at two hours and 35 minutes, fully devotes itself to painting a family portrait seldom allowed such rich cinematic detail.

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05/16/03
Janice Page
Boston Globe
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Shatters myths and stereotypes about the welfare cycle as it delivers an unforgettable portrait of complex lives still largely ignored by popular culture.

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05/15/03
Loren King
Chicago Tribune
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By the time the film ends, we have come to feel that we are practically members of the Hazzard family. The flip side is that we are also exhausted by the numbing accumulation of mundane detail, all too vividly rendered.

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05/08/03
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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Dworkin's potent documentary is a definitive distillation of life in America's black underclass.

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04/18/03
Bob Campbell
Newark Star-Ledger
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