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  • Summary: Love is the 18-year-old daughter of Diane, a former crack addict who since losing her six children to foster care has managed to reassemble her family, however fragile the arrangement. Filmmaker Jennifer Dworkin spent five years with these women, riding an emotional roller-coaster, as past resentments inform each one's prospects for stability and happiness. (Film Forum)… Expand

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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    100
    One of the most searing, heartbreaking and ultimately triumphant mother/daughter stories ever put on film.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    The movie is a portrait, not a polemic -- but I can't imagine an attentive viewer leaving Love & Diane without increased understanding and concern with regard to inner-city life.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    91
    Riveting family portrait.

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