汤姆·艾弗瑞特·斯科特

Baseball player Micah Matthias and his young son Bobby are fleeing a brutal media following the traumatic and unsolved murder of their wife and mother. They end up in the quaint Amish community of Sugarcreek, Ohio under a set of aliases and with a broken-down old truck. Three Amish sisters running an old farmhouse inn take them under their wings and employ Micah as a handyman. This sparks the suspicions of a Sugarcreek policewoman named Rachel Troyler, niece of the three who raised her after she was orphaned as a child. Will the truth interfere with love

Josh is a lost soul with an extraordinary musical talent set on a journey to encounter what he was least expecting but undoubtedly needed most. Feeling like it's him against the world at first, his path is crossed by many people looking for their own fate, that in the end, his presence in their lives turns out to be of extraordinary importance.

本片根据《纽约时报》专栏作家安娜·昆德兰（Anna Quindlen）1994年的同名小说改编。艾伦·戈尔登（芮妮·齐薇格 Renée Zellweger 饰）从哈佛大学毕业后供职于纽约某杂志，事业正在上升期，却因母亲凯特（梅丽尔·斯特里普 Meryl Streep 饰）身患癌症不得不放下工作返回宾夕法尼亚州的朗赫恩小镇照顾家庭。艾伦一直很崇拜教授美国文学的学者父亲乔治（威廉·赫特 William Hurt 饰），但不太看得起身为家庭妇女的母亲。在照顾母亲的过程中，艾伦发现了母亲生活的不易，也发现了父亲的很多黑暗秘密。就在家庭关系的摇摆震荡中，艾伦终于第一次了解了自己的父母，也终于找到了生命中最真实的感动。　　本片被提名奥斯卡、金球奖和金卫星奖最佳女主角奖（梅丽尔·斯特里普），并获美国电影音效剪辑工会金胶卷奖最佳声音剪辑提名。