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Love and Diane
 
Directed By: Jennifer Dworkin
Produced In: USA, 2004
Running Time: 116 minutes 
Genre: Documentary 
Language: English 
Themes: Drugs and Addiction, Foster Care, HIV/AIDS Juvenile Justice
Distributor: Women Make Movies
Synopsis:
"Love & Diane" is a frank and astonishingly intimate real-life drama of a mother and daughter desperate for love and forgiveness, but caught in a devastating cycle. During the 1980's, a crack cocaine epidemic ravaged impoverished many inner city neighborhoods. As parents like Diane succumbed to addiction, a generation of children like Love entered the foster care system. Shot over ten years, the film centers on Love and Diane after the family is reunited and is struggling to reconnect. Now eighteen and a mother herself, Love must reconcile her anger and confront the ways in which her mother's past mistakes haunt her life. Diane, in turn, makes new choices for herself, seeking to break the treadmill of addiction and poverty. Powerful and immediate, "Love & Diane" is an epic film that shatters stereotypes and offers hope amidst seemingly impossible odds.
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