Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

She doesn't want much. Just a whole new life.

199095 min6.2 / 10

A coming-of-age comedy-drama about a misfit teen's desperate fantasy of belonging, set against a small-town homecoming that deflates her illusions while offering unexpected connection.

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

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