The film is a touching coming-of-age tale and an even more touching account of an unlikely friendship marked by love and respect. Although their relationship nearly falls apart when he staggers home drunk one night and discovers her going through his things, something dramatic happens that leads her and her new baby back into his life, this time for good. He agrees to take her in, with one condition: that she respect his privacy. Two years later she shows up unannounced at his door, pregnant after a one-night stand and with nowhere else to go. Tribeca: Demetri Martin, Ingrid Jungermann Take Top Prizes He’s also intensely private, rebuffing any attempt by Charlie to find out what he does when he’s not with her and her mother.

Church, who cooks to the perpetual accompaniment of jazz on the radio, is an endlessly courtly and polite figure, addressing Marie as “ma’am” and referring to Charlie as “my dear.” Besides his culinary duties, he introduces Charlie to the joys of reading, issuing her a makeshift library card and allowing her to borrow the classic books with which he’s stocked their shelves. That is, until she reluctantly starts eating them and quickly gets hooked. Charlie, who is unaware of her mother’s illness, is instantly resistant to the stranger in their midst, turning up her nose at his impeccably prepared meals. Church has been promised a salary for the rest of his life. In return for keeping his promise to Marie’s benefactor, Mr. Tribeca: 'Taxi Driver' Team Recalls Filming in 1970s New York, Current Relevance of ClassicĪs we soon learn, the arrangement is strictly to be a temporary one six months, in fact, which is about how much time the doctors have given Marie after her diagnosis of breast cancer.

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