Pearl

After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.

Cast

Anthony LaPaglia

as Jack Wolf

Larsen Thompson

as Pearl

Sarah Carter

as Helen

Barbara Williams

as Eve

Melissa Macedo

as Silvia

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