Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

Winona Ryder
as Dinky Bossetti

Jeff Daniels
as Denton Webb

Stephen Tobolowsky
as Mayor Bill Klepler

Dinah Manoff
as Evelyn Whittacher

Laila Robins
as Elizabeth Zaks

Thomas Wilson Brown
as Gerald Howells

Joan McMurtrey
as Barbara Webb

Graham Beckel
as Les Bossetti

Frances Fisher
as Rochelle Bossetti

Robby Kiger
as Beannie Billings
Wuchak
**_Teenage Winona Ryder as a misfit coming-of-age in northwest Ohio_** A celebrity from a small town in the Sandusky Bay region is finally returning home for a visit and members of the town react in different ways. A nonconformist teen (Ryder) has suspicions about the ‘star’ while developing a re...