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Winter passing - Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Adam Rapp

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Sometimes you go looking for what you want, and find what you need.

A dramatic/comedy, the début feature of writer/director Adam Rapp, charting the fractious reunion of an estranged father and daughter.

Struggling twentysomething actress Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) has been promised $100,000 by book editor Lori Lanskey (Amy Madigan), if Reese can secure for publication love letters written by her legendary, but reclusive, father Don (Ed Harris) to his equally revered late wife - Reese's mother. Suddenly highly motivated, Reese treks from New York to Michigan - where she finds Don in flagrant disregard of his own health and living with two younger house-mates, practical former graduate student Shelly (Amelia Warner) and would-be-musician Corbit (Will Ferrell) Reese, though no angel herself, does not approve of this ad hoc family. But she comes to appreciate her unlikely new "siblings" and, as secrets are revealed, comes to terms with her father and their shared past and future.