Three listless storylines, intercut for a semblance of kineticism, are cleverly set at one-year intervals, 1999 through 2001, in separate corners of North Carolina. (Writer-director Tim Kirkman is a native North Carolinian.) Kip Pardue, an HIV-positive pretty boy, devotes his remaining days to saving the turtles at Kure Beach. Tess Harper, the provincial pastor's wife in a place ironically called Eden, frets about the suspected homosexual neighbors who've moved in across the street and about a diminutive nude David on a lawn nearby. And a careworn, and quite touching, Bonnie Hunt hunts for the son she long ago gave up for adoption in Asheville. In time it becomes plain that the storylines are connected and that the larger story -- the combined story -- is of broken connections. The indie limitations of the production do not squelch the sincerity. With Michael Kelly, Chris Sarandon, Michael Learned. (2005) — Duncan Shepherd
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