Stephanie Daley

2006

Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 90% · 50 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 59% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 1960 2K

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Plot summary

Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.

Director

Hilary Brougher Photo
Hilary Brougher

Top cast

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Trisha LaFache as Karen
Tilda Swinton Photo
Tilda Swinton as Lydie Crane
Constance Wu Photo
Constance Wu as Jenn
Amber Tamblyn Photo
Amber Tamblyn as Stephanie Daley
720p.WEB
845.67 MB
1280*712
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Buddy-51 7 / 10

intriguing human drama

In "Stephanie Daley," Tilda Swinton stars as Lydie Crane, a forensic psychologist in her final months of pregnancy. Despite her condition and the fact that she had a miscarriage less than a year earlier, Lydie agrees to take on the case of a teenaged girl named Stephanie Daley (Amber Tamblyn) who is accused of killing her newborn at childbirth.Written and directed by Hilary Brougher, "Stephanie Daley" is a human drama wrapped inside a legal whodunit (it's sort of like "Agnes of God" minus the nuns' habits and beatific visions). Set in scenic Upstate New York, the movie explores the anxieties and fears that many women face before, during and after pregnancy. Lydie's situation very much parallels Stephanie's at times, resulting in a strange symbiotic relationship between the two women. Those parallels aren't always as clearly drawn as they might be, but the positive result is that the story is made less obvious and more intriguing by the ambiguity."Stephanie Daley" is a low-keyed, thoughtful work that doesn't go in for flashy melodrama or thematic overstatement. It allows its narrative to unfold slowly, finding much of its drama in the minutiae of everyday life in the small town in which it is set.The movie is blessed with sensitive, subtle work from not only Swinton and Tamblyn but a large cast of secondary performers, including Timothy Hutton, Kel O'Neill, Denis O'Hare, and others. The relationships in the movie are intricate and complex, and the plot doesn't seek out a preset path or formula to follow. It's not a movie designed to appeal to mainstream audiences much, but for those who prefer their films to wander a bit off the well-beaten path, "Stephanie Daley" offers substantial rewards.
Reviewed by natashabowiepinky 7 / 10

Not very jolly...

Reviewed by bellino-angelo2014 6 / 10

Tough to watch but still effective

I am not the type of guy that watches often movies about abortion or sexual issues but when I watch them from time to time, it's for the actors. So keep this in mind as you read my review for this.When the movie begins Stephanie Daley (Amber Tamblyn) is attending a school-organized field trip and suddenly she falls on the ground bleeding. After the recovery the medics discover that she was pregnant and find the baby dead with toilet paper stuffed in his mouth. So Stephanie is accused of child murder but instead of jail time the police give psychologist Lydie Crane (Tilda Swinton) the task of finding out why Stephanie did that act while at the same time deals with her husband Paul (Timothy Hutton) who seems to have lost interest in her.I liked the acting, especially the performances by Swinton and Hutton. But the main problem for me is that it wasn't exactly subtle and considering this is a movie about abortion, the more the subject was handled better the better would have been because some scenes of Stephanie having healt issues or burst into tears with sad music in the background were jarring to watch. As it is, it's ok but nothing more.
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