Premiere Date: April 21, 2004
Synopsis
Jennifer Dworkin’s Love & Diane is a frank and astonishingly intimate real-life drama of a mother and daughter desperate for love and forgiveness, but caught in a devastating cycle. During the 1980s, a crack cocaine epidemic ravaged and impoverished many inner city neighborhoods. As parents like Diane succumbed to addiction, a generation of children like Love entered the foster care system. Shot over ten years, the film centers on Love and Diane after the family is reunited and is struggling to reconnect. Now 18 and a mother herself, Love must reconcile her anger and confront the ways in which her mother’s past mistakes haunt her life. Diane, in turn, makes new choices for herself, seeking to break the treadmill of addiction and poverty. Powerful and immediate, Love & Diane is an epic film that shatters stereotypes and offers hope amidst seemingly impossible odds. An Independent Television Service (ITVS) co-presentation.
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Jennifer Dworkin
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Average Review
| based on 3 reviews
Love and Diane is a moving film. I saw it at a Philly premire where Dworkin discussed the making of the film.
Not a happily ever story, but offers lots of opportunities to understand the difficulties that many families face as they struggle with powverty, family and addiction.
by jay
June 24, 2009, 7:56 AM
I love Miss diane...I have known her for over 3 yrz now and i have grown to approach her as a mother figure to me..I never knew any of her struggles or nuthyn but her being a loving women..this movie hit me hard cuzz it was like someone was showing a movie about my life that i lived so far..I loved it and i love her for stepping up and doing this cuzz ppl need to see it..This is reality
by Matthew P
July 24, 2009, 12:14 PM
This is an excellent movie for those interested in policy for social work, or even the welfare system, because it's good for us to see how our client's lives may be hectic. It helps us to practice with God's love in mind. When I first saw this movie I thought of my cousin's family, because minus the crack addiction, her mother is in a very similar circumstance. It made me want to try harder. I would also like to offer encouragement to the family to keep pressing on!! God has carried everyone such a LONG way despite all of the pain of the past, so continue to be an overcomer!
by Seida H
August 4, 2009, 3:14 PM