Starring Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels, Thomas Wilson Brown, and Laila Robins.
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael is about an adopted 15 year old high school outcast, Dinky (Ryder), who is convinced that a small star, Roxy Carmichael, who is coming back to town for a dedication ceremony in her honor, is her biological mother. Daniels plays Roxy's ex-boyfriend and father of the baby Roxy had prior to leaving town. Brown plays Ryder's love interest, a popular boy, and Robins plays a guidance counselor who befriends Dinky. Flashbacks through the film depict Roxy at her home, and preparing for her trip. Right before she is about to walk out the door with her suitcase, she stops, opens the suitcase, and the scene cuts. By the end of the film, you learn that not only is Roxy not showing up, but she is also not Dinky's real mother, since Daniels' character says that baby is dead and buried.
The film manages to show Roxy's character without ever showing what she looks like. Her face is absolutely never shown, not even in photographs, at least, not to the viewers. At this point, I'm not sure if that added to, or took away from, the plot. Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael is a typical teen movie, especially one from the 80's.
Highly recommended to any and all teenage girls, this film wasn't the best, but I liked it well enough. 5/10.
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael currently holds a 44% critic rating and a 42% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-uRSRale-w
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100911/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/welcome_home_roxy_carmichael/
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