IRONWEED DVD

Movie Description:
Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep star with Fred Gwynne and rocksinger Tom Waits in this bittersweet story of hauntingmemories and the harsh realities of life on the streets. It`s winter, 1938 in Albany,New York. The soup kitchens and flophouses are over-flowing with homeless street people seeking food and refugefrom the unforgiving cold. Francis Phelan wandersthe streets, back in hishometown after 22 years, an aimless vagabond ready to confront the family he abandoned long ago. While sharinghis whiskey with longtime"pal" Helen, Francis reveals the dark secrets of his past, the painful memories from which he once tried to escape...but now must reconcile.