Screenwriter and director ALLISON ANDERS talks about her new film Grace of My Heart. Her other films include: "Four Rooms," "Mi Vida Loca," "Gas Food Lodging." To give you a better idea of why she's considered one of the hot new women film directors here's a comment from Time magazine. "Anders knows the women in... films. She is herself a single mother, who found expression behind the camera as a screenwriter and director. But her movies are not studio films where endings are mandated by preview audiences. Life doesn't mete our happy endings very often. That's left to Hollywood, alas. She cares for her characters, she gives them breathing room and life, dignity and laughter. She doesn't cut them any slack -- they're earthy and human, often foolish and capable of terrible missteps." -- Richard Corliss, Time Magazine, September 12, 1994.
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