Tully

Taking home both the audience prize for Best Director as well as the critics' prize for Best Film, writer-director Hilary Birmingham was the toast of the 2000 L.A. Independent Film Festival with this slice-of-life drama about a pair of motherless young men and their relationships with women. Tully ...more

Despite a plot more hackneyed than a young-adult novella, writer/director Hilary Birmingham's feature debut succeeds, largely on the chemistry of its two promising, twenty-something leads. When The Truth About Tully focuses on its major themes of father-son relationships and fraternal responsibility, the film feels forced. But when the emphasis shifts to the title character's relationships with women -- in particular, his burgeoning romance with the level-headed Ella (Julianne Nicholson) -- ...more