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Mira Sorvino plays the role of Wendy Porter in the film adaption of “Like Dandelion Dust,” which is based on the novel by the same name by Karen Kingsbury. Variety magazine did a write up of the movie which was screened back in January @ the Palm Springs Film Festival.

A natural stewpot of drama — the battle between poor birth parents and wealthy adoptive parents to care for and raise a little boy — cooks and nearly boils over in “Like Dandelion Dust,” an on-the-nose though cathartically emotional melodrama giving Mira Sorvino her most substantial bigscreen role in years and featuring a head-turning performance by Barry Pepper. Fans of Karen Kingsbury’s novel, and auds at U.S. regional fests, could build word of mouth for a nifty theatrical tour before vid and tube home visits.

Stephen J. Rivele and Michael LaChance’s screenplay adaptation takes its time building the links between the two families at the heart of this tug of war — with little Joey (Maxwell Perry Cotton) in the middle — and at first it’s not clear that there’s a crisis. Early passages are largely concerned with Wendy Porter (Sorvino), her brutal abuse at the hands of factory-working husband Rip (Pepper, superbly cast), and his eventual release after a seven-year sentence in an Ohio prison. [Source]