Gena Rowlands, Mimi Rogers, Susan May Pratt. From the director of Crossing Delancy comes this generational saga set in North Carolina at the turn of the 20th century. Unorthodox lifestyles run in the family as three proud and independent women find themselves at odds with proper society. After matriarch Charlie Kate Birch is abandoned by her husband, she takes her widowed daughter and idealistic granddaughter under her wing. Based on the book by Kaye Gibbons. Directed by Joan Micklin Silver. 2002/color/111 min/NR/widescreen.