"A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decade-long affair."
Jennifer Connelly
as Virginia
Emma Roberts
as Jessie Tipton
Toby Jones
as Max
Ed Harris
as Sheriff Dick Tipton
Carrie Preston
as Betty
Lucas Grabeel
as Nervous Mormon
Yeardley Smith
as Mrs. Whitaker
Amy Madigan
as Mrs. Tipton
Anne Lockhart
as Police Dispatch Operator (voice)
Alex Frost
as Josh
Harrison Gilbertson
as Emmett
Garrett Clayton
as Mormon boy (as Gary Clayton)
Meighan Gerachis
as Dawn
Paul Walter Hauser
as Dale
Jessica Rotter
as Onlooker-Neighbor With Eyeglasses (uncredited)
Beatrice Sisul
Editor
Nick Urata
Original Music Composer
Dustin Lance Black
Director
Writer
Scott J. Brooks
Producer
Christine Vachon
Eric Alan Edwards
Director of Photography
Executive Producer
Jay Froberg
Gus Van Sant
Hopwood DePree
Greg Suess
John David Allen