What Matters Most

What Matters Most

Sometimes Love Can Silence All Reason

2001 · 105 min · ★ 10.0 · Drama

Despite different backgrounds and disapproving parents, a working-class teen falls in love with the wealthy son of a prominent family in a small West Texas town.

Directed by Jane Cusumano · Written by Jane Cusumano

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A close match in mood and era.

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