BLUEBERRY HILL

Set in the real age of innocence – the 1950s in America, BLUEBERRY HILL features a full music track of twenty two hit songs from this era, some with original recordings just for this film, featuring singer Max Gronenthal from Jack Mack and The Heart Attack and 38 Special. The score is composed by Ira Ingber (“Domino”) in the tradition of Bob Dylan and The Band.

Ellie Dane (Jennifer Rubin) and Denny Logan (Matt Lattanzi) are two teens in a small back-woods country town who are just dying to get out of their sheltered environment and take on the world. However, there’s a mountain of bitterness that stands in their way from Ellie’s mother Becca Dane (Academy Award nominee Carrie Snodgress). In a cruel reaction to her own lack of success with men, she hounds Ellie on the evil that will happen to her if she leaves. Ellie’s only friend is Hattie Cale (Academy Award Nominee Margaret Avery), a laundry woman who leads a double life as a singer at the local saloon. Hattie befriends Ellie, teaches her about her father, and uncovers Ellie’s own talent as a musician. Meanwhile Ellie is moving on from the local boy Denny and shattering his dreams of them traveling the racing circuit together. They eventually leave town together, deeply changed by their first sexual encounters.

This is Director Strathford Hamilton’s first movie, and is released by MGM in the USA.