Sunshine State

Two coastal towns in Florida: Delrona Beach, which is white, and Lincoln Beach, where Black families have lived for a century. Developers arrive at both at the same time. Marly runs the motel she inherited from her father and hates the work; she is thinking of selling, and her father will not hear it. Desiree comes back to town after many years with her husband; she was sent away at fifteen when she got pregnant. As the land goes on the market, everyone sits down to negotiate with their own past. John Sayles directs; two hours and twenty-one minutes, with Edie Falco as Marly and Angela Bassett as Desiree, and Jane Alexander, Mary Alice and Bill Cobbs in the cast. Sayles is known for large casts and for telling one place through many lives at once.