Calling Me Home Movie Updates

Thu., Mar. 14, 2013

from The Hollywood Reporter

Warner Bros. Picks Up Rights to 'Calling Me Home'

Warner Bros. has picked up the rights to Julie Kibler's book Calling Me Home for an adaptation to be produced by Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment.

• changed the production status to Announced
• added Vertigo Entertainment as a production company
• added Warner Bros. Pictures as a distributor
• added Roy Lee as Producer to the credits
• added drama as a genre
• added a synopsis

• Set in present day and the 1930s, 89-year-old woman Isabelle McAllister enlists her hairdresser, a black single mother named Dorrie Curtis, to help drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Along the way, McAllister rev... show all eals the secrets of her past, in which she fell in love with the black son of her family’s housekeeper to tragic consequences.

• created the movie profile