Leo stars as Ray Eddy, a hardworking, tireless mother whose gambling-addicted husband has fled their home with money for the down payment for a new doublewide trailer home just one week before Christmas. And it’s heartbreaking to watch as the proud mother tries to appeal to the trailer deliveryman’s good nature in ensuring she’ll be able to provide a suitable home for her children as you can see in the clip below, which certainly rings true in our struggling economy as so many people find their homes jeopardized.
“Call Me When You Have the Money”
While her fifteen-year-old son T.J. (Charlie McDermott) offers to get a job to help contribute, Ray adamantly refuses, telling him flatly that not only has he got to go to school but he’s also got to be there to look after his younger brother. Eager to track down her husband, she tries all of his usual haunts in the Land of the Mohawk and when she notices his car in the parking lot of the local Territorial High Stakes Bingo Parlor, tries to find him herself, encountering a dead end in the form of a woman who refuses to let her into the parlor without paying an entrance fee.
“Can I Just Look?”
The first of many scenes that illustrate the double-standards and reverse racism and sexism in the community on both sides, the angry yet determined Ray follows a mysterious young woman she sees driving her husband’s car. Following a confrontation with the woman named Lila (the talented Misty Upham), upon realizing that her husband is nowhere to be found, she finds herself striking a tentative bargain with the young Native American woman who promises that she’ll be able to help her sell her husband’s Dodge Spirit.
“I’m Not Crossing That”
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