Sadie, the latest from local filmmaker Megan Griffiths (Lucky Them, The Off Hours, Eden), has a perfect Northwest feel. Sadie is 13 years old and lives with her mother in a dilapidated trailer park. The place is both suburban and on the outskirts of society. It seems like a place where people just end up and get stuck, but the residents have created a tight-knit community for themselves.
Sadie worships her absent father (who has spent many years away in the military) while being impossible with her harried working mother, Rae. The father occasionally writes Sadie, but he hasn’t communicated with Sadie’s mother in three years. Rae seems a bit unmoored, but you have to sympathize with a woman trying to work and raise a kid on her own; she just wants some kind of life for herself, too.