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SYNOPSIS Dramatic Feature Running Time: 102 Minutes Suggested Rating: R for Brief Strong Language and Sexual Situations Year follows the lives of four adult sisters over the course of twelve months, from one New Year’s Eve to the following New Year’s Eve, and the life of their mother, for whom this is her last year. Opening on New Years Eve, we are introduced to the women of the Stone family: Ava Stone (Bonnie Bennett) – mid-fifties. The oldest of four daughters, Ava had been a successful singer in Europe earlier in her life, but is now something of a recluse, working on her house, which she shares in a loveless marriage with Brendan Carre (Blair Leatherwood), who had written a successful novel as a young man, but is now reduced to teaching writing at a local college. Ava has a strained relationship with her grown daughter, Lana (Kristen Heitman), who lives in San Francisco. Sydney Stone (Christine Nicholson) – mid-forties, is the second oldest. Perpetually restless, she is never content with the same job or the same man for long. Currently living with Miles Sanders (Eric Wheeler), a public radio personality who is intrigued with Ava’s past life as a performer. Vivian Stone (Carol Miranda) – late thirties. Her New Year’s Resolution is to get married, have a child and write a book in the coming year. What she lacks is any motivation to accomplish anything. She lives next door to Ava and shares her house with and cares for their mother Doris (Hazel Johnson), the family matriarch. Doris has led a dysfunctional life, which she has passed on to her daughters. She spends most of her days holed up in her room with her vodka as terminal illness slowly consumes her. Gina Stone (Katherine Pappa) – thirties, the youngest, career-driven and a single mother to Chris (Savannah Swain), the youngest of a new generation of Stone women. However, as the corporation Gina has dedicated herself to faces reorganization, she faces the choice between her professional future and the commitment to her daughter. Brendan’s writing classes are in the morning, leaving his afternoons to be spent with Joan (Cheantell Munn), which he writes about in a daily journal of his conquests. Joan is in a loveless marriage with John (David Harris), who works away in San Francisco several days a week. It is on one of these days in San Francisco that John bumps into Lana, Ava’s daughter. When Ava was a young woman working in San Francisco, she had an intense love affair with an older married man, which produced her only daughter Lana. Now Lana mirrors her mother’s life becoming involved with John. Her own life soon begins to parallel her mother’s in more ways than she had expected. Over the course of the next 365 days, each woman will be tested about the direction they choose to continue their lives and how they will handle saying goodbye to the past chapter. CREDITS
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