Dear Eleanor

2016
PG-13
1h 29m

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5.9/10

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Jessica Alba, Luke Wilson, Josh Lucas, Joel Courtney, Liana Liberato, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Isabelle Fuhrman in Dear Eleanor (2016)

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Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Director
- Kevin Connolly
Writers
- Cecilia Contreras
- Amy Garcia
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IMDb RATING

5.9/10

2.1K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Kevin Connolly
Writers
- Cecilia Contreras
- Amy Garcia
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The picture was filmed almost entirely in the U.S. state of Colorado. This U.S. state doubles for nearly eight other states there, as well as Broadway in New York City.

Goofs
When Bob and Billy stop for lunch at a restaurant and sit by the front window, the same three cars are seen in the background, driving one way and, a few seconds later, the other way. Several times each.

Connections
References Gone with the Wind (1939)

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Mostly an entertaining 90 minutes of road trip movie.

I came across this movie while looking for Jessica Alba movies I had not watched yet. She has a good role here as the entertainer aunt of one of the teenage girls. My wife and I watched it on DVD from our public library.

Set in 1962 with the Cuban Missile Crisis looming, California teenager Ellie loses her mother to a car wreck right before mom was to deliver an address directed at Eleanor Roosevelt. As teenagers might Ellie and her friend Max (a girl) decide to skip out and take an unlikely road trip to New York to look up Roosevelt and deliver mom's speech.

Except for Max who is overly annoying all the characters are good, in different ways. Mostly it is an entertaining road trip, with dad trying to hunt down the delinquent girls and what happens once they actually arrive in New York.