Movie
The Spitfire Grill
Synopsis
With the help of her former warden, ex-con Percy Talbott moves to Gilead, Maine to make a fresh start. She gets a job waiting tables at the Spitfire Grill and rents a room above it. The cafe proprietor is the irritable Hannah Ferguson. Friendliness is not a word used to describe Gilead and the locals are suspicious of Percy. That she does not conceal her incarceration does not help them warm to her. This gentle drama tinged with joy and sadness centers on the relationships between Percy, the townsfolk and the Spitfire Grill. One day Hannah suffers a bad fall and is forced to bed to recover. To help her, shrewd local businessman Nahum Goddard, whose biggest concern is preserving the character of the town so as to attract renewed interest in an abandoned granite quarry, sends his introverted wife, Shelby to help Percy at the Grill. His ulterior motive is to have Shelby spy on her and report anything strange, but Shelby and Percy instead become good friends. Eventually, the three women decide to sell the restaurant by holding a national raffle/essay contest in which contestants send in $100 and an composition explaining why they want it.
Cast
- Alison Elliott
- Ellen Burstyn
- Marcia Gay Harden
- Will Patton
- Kieran Mulroney
- Gailard Sartain
- Louise De Cormier
- John M. Jackson
- Ida Griesemer
- Lincoln Grow
- Louise Grow
- Sam Lloyd Sr.
- Lisa Louise Langford
- Forrest Murray
- Patty Smith
- Faith Caitlin
- Janet St. Onge
- Jim Hogue
- Stacy Becker
- Cliff Levering
- Dennis Mientka
- Stuart Jackson
- Monica Callan
- Richard Addis
- Linda H. Miller
- Warren G. Stitt
- Robert Draper
- Louise Mingenbach
- Lynne Eagan
- Edward E. Vaughn
- Peter Borck
- Howard Cummings
- Deborah Stitt
- Lee David Zlotoff
- Marci Liroff
- Rob Draper
- Danny Aiello III
- Margie Goodspeed
