Earthly Possessions

Earthly Possessions

Drama, Crime, Romance | March 20, 1999

A bored wife, who is planning to run away from her minister husband, is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to helping the younger robber escape his pursuers. As things progress, she learns he pulled the robbery to get enough money to help his pregnant girlfriend leave a home for unwed mothers. The two have a brief flirtation, but it is clear the housewife just needs something to enliven her life.

Earthly Possessions

Drama, Crime, Romance | March 20, 1999

Earthly Possessions
A bored wife, who is planning to run away from her minister husband, is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to helping the younger robber escape his pursuers. As things progress, she learns he pulled the robbery to get enough money to help his pregnant girlfriend leave a home for unwed mothers. The two have a brief flirtation, but it is clear the housewife just needs something to enliven her life.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Rastar Films
Original title Earthly Possessions
Directors James Lapine
Writers Anne Tyler, Steven Rogers

Cast

Susan Sarandon

as Charlotte Emory

Stephen Dorff

as Jake Simms, Jr.

Margo Martindale

as Libby

Boyd Gaines

as Announcer

Deborah Rush

as Heidi Anderson

Jay O. Sanders

as Zack Emery

Alice Drummond

as Old Woman in Jalopy

Elisabeth Moss

as Mindy

Danielle Ferland

as Baby Whitehead