Higher Ground (1:49) 2011

Corinne (Vera Farmiga), married fifteen years, lives with her husband and three children in the Hudson Valley. The Miller family are pillars of a close knit Fundamentalist Church community. All is well until Corinne begins to question her faith when her close friend Annika is diagnosed with a brain tumor. As Corinne struggles with her belief system, her marriage to Ethan founders. Higher Ground, Framiga's directing debut, is a close up look at a way of life that is unfamiliar to me and which I found very interesting. Farmiga does a great good at showing us a woman becoming open to new ways of thinking and feeling.. Her husband and friends, while good people, are stagnant in their thinking. Corinne simply outgrows her way of life and needs to move forward. And that was not easy for her, her family and her community. Four of us (all women) thought this was a good movie. It certainly provoked conversation on the ride home. And that is the best sign of a good movie.