What Girls Learn

Drama

Scott Bakula	Nick
Sarah Gadon	Samantha
Noah Giffin	Altar Boy
Tamara Hope	Elizabeth
Margo Martindale	Lainey
Elizabeth Perkins	Mama
Alison Pill	Tilden
Kyle Schmid	Jamie Sanders
Paulette Sinclair	Mrs. Teuffel
Gloria Slade	Mrs. Zimmerman

Director	Lee Rose
Producer	Scott Bakula; Laurie McLarty
Writer	Karin Cook; Karen Leigh Hopkins

For two sisters, growing up is a painful lesson

Actress Elizabeth Perkins (About Last Night..., He Said, She Said) gives a bravura performance as "Mama," a quirky eccentric single mother raising two daughters who are entering their awkward, trying teenage years. As their mother, provider, teacher and best friend, Mama shares with them her zest for life, in which the unconventional and unexpected are always just around the corner.

"Normal," she claims," is rather dull." But, true to form, there's one surprise she's neglected to tell her daughters: she has been carrying on a long distance romance with Nick (Scott Bakula, American Beauty, and TV's Enterprise) and has decided to uproot the family and move them from rural Georgia to Nick's home in Long Island, New York. And while her daughters struggle with the sudden addition of a "father" in their lives, there is another abrupt, startling revelation from Mama- one that forces everyone to confront love, pain, loss, and ultimately, acceptance.