Shot entirely on location in the rolling hills of the real Big Stone Gap, Virginia, and featuring local talent at every turn, the film is truly a love letter to small town life, working people and the triumph of loveīIG STONE GAP premiered on Opening Night of the Virginia Film Festival on November 6th, 2014. An original score by John Leventhal and a soundtrack featuring the music of Rosanne Cash, Ralph Stanley, Michael Trigiani, Papa Joe Smiddy, If Birds Could Fly and others, complement the romantic tale of BIG STONE GAP to great effect. She decides to trade security for adventure, believing for the first time, that it is never too late for anything-or anyone.Īcademy Award-winning producer Donna Gigliotti and the all-star cast that has collectively won seven Tony Awards, two Academy Awards, three Grammys and four Emmys include Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Judith Ivey, Anthony LaPaglia, Chris Sarandon, Jasmine Guy, Jane Krakowski, James Hampton, Paul Wilson, Mary Pat Gleason, Dagmara Dominczyk, Mary Testa, and Jenna Elfman. ![]() Her confusion and uncertainty lead her to rethink the choices she’s made and re-chart her own life course. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the fourth feature film adaptation of John Fox Jr.s 1908 novel, including 19 silent versions. A 1923 film adaptation starring Mary Miles Minter and Antonio Moreno is considered a lost film. As Hollywood glitter settles across the coal fields, Ave Maria is caught in the middle of a long held family feud and a marriage proposal that tanks. Minter made four more motion pictures for Paramount, with her last being The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1923). While Ave Maria’s life implodes, a historic visit from the iconic movie star Elizabeth Taylor, who comes through town on a campaign stop with her new husband, Senate candidate John Warner, stirs the locals into a frenzy. Now the old maid of Big Stone Gap, Ave Maria decides that happiness is for other people – that is, until a long-buried family secret throws her quiet life spectacularly off-course. Ave Maria waits, and before she knows it, she turns 40. Ave Maria lives with her mother, runs the pharmacy, directs The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama, and hopes that Theodore Tipton, her best friend and the high school band director will take their platonic friendship in a romantic direction. It’s 1978 and the ever-ordinary Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) lives a simple life. ![]() ![]() Based on her best-selling novel of the same name, writer/director Adriana Trigiani brings the story of a coal mining town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia to vivid life.
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