by Hal Erickson
synopsis
A first-rate jazz score dominates the coming-of-age drama Blueberry Hill. Jennifer Rubin plays a small town girl of the 1950s whose musician father dies suddenly. Rubin's grief is not assuaged by her mother Carrie Snodgrass, who is having enough trouble coping with the tragedy on her own. The young girl must turn to jazz singer Margaret Avery for comfort and advice. Along the way, Rubin discovers that she's inherited her father's piano-playing prowess-and has also learned a few unsettling family secrets.
characteristics
- Death Of A Parent
- Music
- Mother
- Neurosis
- Piano
- Slice-of-life
- Life-changes
- Neurotic
- Inheritance
- Family
- Daughter
- Father
- Friend
- Generation-gap
- Child
