Future Weather (2012)

Jack and I loved this story of a brainy 13 year old environmentalist forced to live with her grandmother when her mother takes off. Perla Haney-Jardine is terrific as the impassioned Lauderee (LAW-der-ray), as are Amy Madigan as her grandmother Greta/Gigi, Lili Taylor as her supportive science teacher Ms. Marcovi, and Marin Ireland as her free spirit mother Tanya.

Director/writer Jenny Deller fleshed out her three minute short Save the Future (2009) into this, her feature debut.

No composer is credited but here is a song list. It was shot around Philadelphia and some scenes may cause sufferers of Motion Picture Motion Sickness to move farther from the screen.

Taylor was last blogged for Being Flynn. Jardine's credits include Kill Bill: Vol.2 (2004) when she was seven, another Kill Bill in 2011, young Lisa in Steve Jobs, and a small part in Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood. Madigan was Oscar nominated for Twice in a Lifetime (1986) and is also known for Field of Dreams (1989), Pollock (2000) which starred her husband Ed Harris, and Gone Baby Gone (2007). Ireland is best known to me for five episodes of Mildred Pierce (2011), five of Homeland (2011-12), and three of Masters of Sex (2014).

Rotten Tomatoes' critics are sunny, averaging 93%, while its audiences are stormy at 55. Let the sun shine!

If you couldn't attend the recent tenth anniversary screening, you can rent it on iTunes, Prime, etc.