Filmmaker Mary Haverstick spends most of her time these days hovered over a computer
screen in her tiny office on the second floor of an old row house on North Prince
Street. She's creating clouds, modulating voices and smoothing the rough edges on her
new movie, "Home," which is already getting plenty of buzz even though it probably
won't be shown anywhere until the fall. Haverstick says rumors floated on the Internet
that "Home" would be shown at Sundance, even though she hasn't even submitted the film
to the famous festival. But that's what happens when your film stars an Academy
Award-winning actress. Marcia Gay Harden, who won best supporting actress for
"Pollock" in 2001, liked Haverstick's screenplay so much she signed on to star and
spent most of her summer last year filming in the Lancaster countryside. "We've
pinched ourselves a thousand times, from having investors who believed in us to
casting directors believing in us to Marcia's interest to finding out she had a
daughter who would be perfect for a role we weren't sure we could cast," Haverstick
says. "Home" is about Inga, a poet who is in a bad marriage, has a problem with
alcohol and has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Read the complete article
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