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Lacking money for college, a willowy high school grad (Christine Evangelista) moves in with her quarrelsome gay brother (Ivan Sandomire) in Manhattan and lands a job waiting tables at a comedy club. Her boss (Jerry Adler) is a recovering alcoholic, which gives her the idea to work up her own act by posing as a cokehead and using a 12-step group as her test audience. From this slender premise, writer-director Daniel Schechter develops a modest but touching coming-of-age story (2007); as the young woman becomes romantically involved with a recovering addict (Michael Mosley), she faces her own demons by revisiting a long-buried family tragedy. Evangelista is rather weak but gets good support from Kevin Corrigan, Ann Dowd, and Alan Ruck. 88 min.

Sorry there are no showtimes for Goodbye Baby on Saturday, November 7.

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