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Julia Hart (USA, 1982), the daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter and of an Hollywood actress,
debuted with
Miss Stevens (2016).
She then turned to the sci-fi melodrama Fast Color (2018), co-written and produced by her husband Jordan Horowitz and photographed by Michael Fimognari,
which is hampered by an implausible plot and by a ridiculous ending.
It has not rained for eight years. Bo is reading a diary she's writing in which
she talks about her daughter Ruth, of whom she has no news.
We then see Ruth driving like a maniac in the middle of the night and taking
a room at a motel. The motel charges a lot for water.
During the night Ruth feels that she's about to have seizures and calls the
receptionist to warn her about an earthquake. Sure enough seconds later the
earthquake starts. Minutes later the motel is surrounded by police officers but
she has already left. She stops at a diner and a stranger approaches her, Bill.
He finds an excuse to chat with her. She doesn't want to talk. Outside a cop
is inspecting her car: obviously they are looking for her. The stranger saves
her by pretending that he is her husband. He drives her away but then reveals
that he is a scientist working for the government, that they are looking for her,
that they know about her supernatural powers and that they want to study her.
She flees when he tries to sedate her and wounds him.
Bill abandons his car and continues to chase her even if he's bleeding.
His car is found later by aging local sheriff Ellis.
Ruth stops at a general store and at a bar.
In the morning Ruth heads for a secluded house where an old woman, Bo, lives alone
with a smart girl, Lila. Ruth meets the old woman, who is her mother, and asks
her for help to hide from those who are chasing her.
We understand that Ruth was a drug addict who ran away from home.
Meanwhile, Bill is still looking for her.
When Ruth has another seizure and causes an earthquake in the house, Bo tells
Lila that Ruth is her mother.
Lila demonstrates her supernatural power to disintegrate objects and reassemble them, all the while seeing "colors".
Bo confesses that she has the same powers.
Ruth instead doesn't have the power to fix things and doesn't see the colors.
Meanwhile, sheriff Ellis learns that Bill and government agents are investigating something in his town and starts investigating himself. They all retrace Ruth's movements: the general store, the bar.
Lila is trying to fix Ruth's old pickup truck. Lila needs some more tools and begs Bo to drive her to town. Unbeknownst to Bo, Lila disintegrates the expensive tools that she needs in the store and then recomposes them when she gets home.
But scientist Bill and his detective partner see her and follow her.
Ellis comes to warn Bo that government officers are looking for Ruth: he knows
about Ruth and is happy to hear that she's ok, hiding there.
Lila has spent her entire life in that house: Bo doesn't want her to leave the
house because every woman of the family who left the house managed to get in
trouble, and the superpowers don't help.
Lila manages to fix Ruth's pickup truck and wants it for herself, planning to
escape, but Bo finds out that Lila stole the tools from the store.
Ellis comes again and we learn that Rush is his daughter. Ellis warn them that
Ruth must leave immediately. Ruth takes her old pickup truck and leaves, with
Lila begging in vain to take her too.
Ruth is haunted by the memory of when Lila almost drowned, and we understand
that Ruth's supernatural power caused the eight-year drought.
Ruth is left without gasoline and has to stop. Then the seizures come back but
this time she fights them back and sees the "colors". She is ecstatic that she
is healed. It starts raining.
She runs back home but finds it empty: Bill and the officers have
taken Lila, who used her superpowers to save Ruth.
Ruth, Bo and Ellis drive to town where Lila has been imprisoned.
Ruth summons a storm on the town. Ruth is immediately surrounded by the officers,
armed with guns. Bo, however, reveals her own supernatural powers: she disintegrates their weapons and then surrenders to them.
Meanwhile, Lila simply disintegrates the doors of the place where they locked her up.
Ruth and Lila can leave in the old pickup truck. Bo
truck, and find a note from Bo telling them to head for Rome to find another woman that she used to know with powers.
She then directed the musical Stargirl (2020), based on Jerry Spinelli's 2000 novel, I'm Your Woman (2020) and the new musical Hollywood Stargirl (2022).
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