Jeffrey Tambor spoke Saturday on the “Acting in Film” panel with Cheech Marin, Dennis Hopper, and Molly Parker.

TURNING PAIGE

D: Robert Cuffley; with Katherine Isabelle, Nicholas Campbell, Torri Higginson.

Paige is a gifted young writer trudging through adolescence in small-town, snow-buried Canada. She has her share of family woes — a deadbeat brother, a widowed father, a scorned and rather loud ex-boyfriend — and then she has her share of family secrets. What those are and the price of keeping them hidden is the subject of this debut feature film from Canadian Robert Cuffley. Nicely shot and acted, with an especially fine performance from its lead, Katherine Isabelle, Turning Paige withholds a great deal as it inches along, and as such, the film is slow and confounding at times, and the family secrets that bubble up in the film’s climax may come as a bit of a disappointment. Instead, Turning Paige‘s real payoff is the way Cuffley shifts our perspective on each character, challenging our assumptions about each, especially the complicated and fluctuating teen girl at the film’s center. (3/14, Arbor, 4pm) — Sarah Hepola

This article appears in March 15 • 2002.

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