Off the Map
- Theatrical - Limited 2005-08-09
- Cast Joan Allen Sam Elliott Jim True-Frost J.K. Simmons
- Directed by Campbell Scott
- Written by Joan Ackermann
It¹s 1974 and the harshly beautiful wilds of Taos are home to 11-year-old Bo Groden (Valentina de Angelis) and her free-thinking family. While constantly yearning for escape from her sparse environment, Bo passes the time with flair and imagination. She’s a crack shot with a rifle and a bow and arrow, an artful plunderer of wallets and briefcases, and the compelling mistress of ceremonies for a moonlit three-ring circus of her own invention. Bo’s home is an entrancing, challenging place that she will one day transcend to become the woman she was destined to be.
Arlene (Joan Allen), Bo’s warm, earthy, and eccentric mother, raises most of the family’s food in her vegetable garden — which she prefers to tend in the nude. Meanwhile, Bo’s father, Charley (Sam Elliott), the embodiment of Old West masculinity, is losing the battle with his inner demons.
When William Gibbs (Jim True-Frost) arrives, a hapless IRS agent with demons of his own, he soon proves to be a catalyst in the lives of the family during this watershed summer. Embraced by the Grodens¹ idyllic, peculiar world, Gibbs eventually abandons an investigation into the Grodens¹ tax history and realizes he has fallen in love with both the place and its people.
In a surge of creative energy, Gibbs dips a brush in paint and pours his feelings out on canvas, discovering a long hidden talent for artistic expression. The Grodens, too, make their own discoveries over the course of this memorable season — the mysteries of love and loss, the power of family unity, and the eternal truth that in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, anything is possible.
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