The Truth About Emanuel
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| Directed by | Francesca Gregorini |
| Produced by | Matt R. Brady Francesca Gregorini |
| Written by | Francesca Gregorini |
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Jessica Biel Kaya Scodelario Alfred Molina Frances O'Connor |
| Music by | Nathan Larson |
| Cinematography | Polly Morgan |
| Edited by | Antony Langdon |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4,404 |
The Truth About Emanuel (previously Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes) is a 2013 drama thriller indie film written, directed and produced by Francesca Gregorini. The film stars Jessica Biel, Kaya Scodelario, Alfred Molina, Jimmi Simpson, Aneurin Barnard and Frances O'Connor. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2013.
Emanuel is a seventeen-year-old young woman who is still wracked with guilt over her late mother who died giving birth to her. She meets a boy on the train on her way to her job at a medical supply shop named Claude, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Emanuel is also living at her small home in Los Angeles with her father and her step mother, to whom she is anti-social with because she isn't anything like her mother and tries to accuse her of thinking she is a lesbian, as per her name being Emanuel, as her parents believed she were going to be a boy, as a way to justify her bitterness to her step mother.
The next night a woman named Linda moves into the neighborhood as Emanuel's new next door neighbor and she is shocked when she notices she looked just like her late mother. When Emanuel discovers that she is in need of babysitter for her newborn baby, Emanuel-despite her disliking of children-agrees, claiming she'll need the extra money for her souvenir collection but it's only because she wants to get to know more about the woman who looks like her dead mother. When Linda agrees to allow Emanuel to babysit her child, her interests are shattered when she discovered that the "baby" is actually a doll, and Emanuel believes Linda is mentally disturbed. But as Linda and Emanuel develop a friendship, Emanuel tries to hide the fact that Linda's "baby" is really a doll from others by not letting people near the "baby." But that task becomes increasingly harder when her best friend/co-worker Arthur from the medical supply store befriends Linda when she goes in to purchase a baby nasal aspirator, and agrees to substitute for Emanuel as the babysitter when Linda makes mention of being invited to Emanuel's birthday dinner and needing a substitute babysitter the night of the dinner.
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