“More essential than so much of what’s on view today...Lets us look at ourselves with an acuity we’d love to recover for good."

Will Joyner, The New York Times

It’s 1963 in rural Massachusetts, and Nora James (Stephanie Castellarin) has the usual worries of an eleven year-old girl: lipstick, first crushes, staying out of trouble at school – not easy when your teacher is Sister Concilia. And even harder when your parents are struggling to heal from the almost unbearable loss of three young children in an automobile accident.

In a performance hailed as “remarkable” by Daniel Kimmel of Variety, Ms. Castellarin joins the legendary Katharine Ross, and the gifted Brian Delate and Patricia Kalember to bring to the screen this tale of love, loss and the will to endure.

Writing of the film in the Boston Globe, Jay Carr observed: “All the emotions count. They register not histrionically but in piercing vignettes...It’s the extraordinary performance Foley draws from Castellarin that gives the film its vital center. For all its finesse and emotional veracity, HOME BEFORE DARK is above all generous as it revisits some keenly felt personal history with compassion and ties together its loose ends with love and empathy.”