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Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Winona Ryder and Jeff Daniels.

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
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Directed by	Jim Abrahams
Written by	Karen Leigh Hopkins
Produced by	Penney Finkelman Cox
Starring	Winona Ryder Jeff Daniels Laila Robins Dinah Manoff
Cinematography	Paul Elliott
Edited by	Bruce Green
Music by	Melissa Etheridge Thomas Newman
Production company	ITC Entertainment[1]
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 12, 1990 (1990-10-12)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$13 million
Box office	$3.989 million

Plot

Dinky Bossetti is a 15-year-old girl who was adopted as a baby. Dinky is an unkempt goth kid who is constantly picked on at school, although it is not obvious which came first – her antisocial attitude or her being rejected by her adoptive parents and peers. Dinky finds solace in her "Ark", a small cabin-boat beached on a lake shore. In and around the boat, Dinky has collected a menagerie of abandoned animals.

Dinky's adoptive mother Rochelle is disappointed that the daughter she chose has no interest in "feminine" things, such as makeup and nice clothing. Her adoptive father, Les, passively allows his wife to scold Dinky and send her to various "counselors" who are little more than temporary jailers. Her teachers give her no support when classmates ostracize, taunt, and throw things at her. Dinky enjoys thumbing her nose at her peers and embarrasses Gerald, a cute popular boy, by reading a condescending love poem to him in class.

Dinky is befriended by the new school guidance counselor Elizabeth Zaks, who recognizes her intelligence and spirit. Ms Zaks tries to encourage Dinky to improve her appearance and get along with others more effectively, without compromising her true self. Gerald begins to take an interest in Dinky and tries to get other students to stop harassing her, but Dinky doesn't notice, even though he occasionally spies on her. Dinky becomes convinced that she is the abandoned daughter of Roxy Carmichael, a minor film star who left town for Hollywood 15 years before. Roxy has been invited to return to town to assist in the dedication of a new municipal building, and she has accepted. Dinky becomes fixated on the many similarities she shares with Roxy and questions the town folks for memories of her. The news of her return stirs up old jealousies and insecurities: old schoolmates gossip wildly. Dinky harasses Denton Webb, Roxy's old boyfriend, for information and he lets it slip that Roxy secretly had his baby before she left town, not realizing that Dinky now believes he is her father. Denton becomes so obsessed with Roxy's return that his wife Barbara moves out.

As the date for Roxy's return draws nearer, Dinky becomes more and more desperate to prove that she is Roxy's daughter, visiting the star's childhood home (which is maintained as a cheesy museum), and obsessively questioning Denton about what happened the night she left, believing that Roxy will take her away to a new life. On the day that Roxy is due to arrive, Dinky packs her suitcase and arrives at the welcoming ceremony in a beautiful dress. Rochelle has invited representatives from a boarding school so she can send Dinky away, but Les finally stands up to his spouse and reminds her Dinky is their daughter. A limousine draws up, but a man gets out with a note of explanation: Roxy has not come back. Before the limousine can drive away, Dinky runs after it. Realizing the reason for Dinky's obsession with Roxy, Denton catches up with her and tells her the whole story: although Roxy did have a baby girl, and did leave her with him, the baby died. Roxy is not Dinky's mother, nor is he her father.

Left with nothing, Dinky is rescued by Gerald, who has developed feelings for her. At first, Dinky is suspicious of his interest, but the end of the film shows them together in a relationship where she is really appreciated for who she is, as things return to normal in the town.

Cast

Actor	Role
Winona Ryder	Dinky Bossetti
Jeff Daniels	Denton Webb
Laila Robins	Elizabeth Zaks
Thomas Wilson Brown	Gerald Howells
Joan McMurtrey	Barbara Webb
Graham Beckel	Les Bossetti
Frances Fisher	Rochelle Bossetti
Robby Kiger	Beannie Billings
Dinah Manoff	Evelyn Whittacher
Sachi Parker	Libby Ohlemachet
Stephen Tobolowsky	Mayor Bill Klepler
Micole Mercurio	Louise Garweski
John Short	Ronald Reems
Robin Thomas	Scotty Sandholtzer
Valerie Landsberg	Miss Day Ashburn
Rhonda Aldrich	Charmaine
Ava Fabian	Roxy Carmichael
Carla Gugino	Young Roxy
Rob King	Young Denton
Daniel Fekete	Denny, Jr.
Beth Grant	Lillian Logerfield
Heidi Swedberg	Andrea Stein
Angela Paton	Gloria Sikes

Production notes

The setting of the film, Clyde, Ohio, is a real town. However the film features locations in Sandusky, Ohio as well. Located on the shore of Lake Erie.

Reception

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 50% approval rating based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10.[2] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 44 out of 100 based on 19 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews."[3] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[4]

One of the most outspoken detractors of the film was Variety, whose comments about it were that "fans of Winona Ryder will definitely want to catch her in an offbeat role as the town rebel in this teen-oriented small-town saga; unfortunately, the rest of the production doesn't quite match up."[5]

Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars in his original review, and said that "Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael" contains one small treasure: a perceptive and particular performance by Winona Ryder in the role of a high school outcast", and that "her work is surrounded by a screenplay so flat-footed that much of our time is spent waiting impatiently for foregone conclusions."[6]

Soundtrack

Thomas Newman composed the original score for the film, which was released on cassette and compact disc by Varèse Sarabande. Although Melissa Etheridge wrote and performed two original songs for the film - "Don't Look At Me" and "In Roxy's Eyes (I Will Never Be the Same)" - neither is included on the soundtrack album; while the former has never been released, the latter is included on her 1993 album Yes I Am as "I Will Never Be the Same".

1. In the Closet (1:45)
2. Little Black Bird (1:23)
3. Hers Are Nicest (1:10)
4. Refrigerator Shrine (2:36)
5. Missing Bossetti Child (:56)
6. Wake Up (1:26)
7. Clyde (1:44)
8. Her Limousine (1:57)
9. Several Letters (1:12)
10. Choke It (2:18)
11. Arriving by Aeroplane (:56)
12. Cleveland (1:12)
13. Yours Are Nice (:41)
14. Baby Soup (2:56)
15. In a Beauty Parlor (:35)
16. G. on a Bike (1:06)
17. Her Majesty's Dress (1:22)
18. This Was My Intention (2:29)
19. In a Small Town (1:33)

References

External links

• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael at IMDb
• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael at AllMovie
• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael at Rotten Tomatoes
• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael at Box Office Mojo

На других языках

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[de] Ein Mädchen namens Dinky

Ein Mädchen namens Dinky ist eine Komödie vom Regisseur Jim Abrahams, die 1990 produziert wurde.

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- [en] Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

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[it] Roxy - Il ritorno di una stella

Roxy - Il ritorno di una stella (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael) è un film del 1990 diretto da Jim Abrahams.

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[ru] Добро пожаловать домой, Рокси Кармайкл

«Добро пожаловать домой, Рокси Кармайкл» — кинофильм.

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