![]() ![]() Small-town drama with Ryder as an adopted girl convinced that a returning superstar is her biological mother. ![]() So-so Jerry Lee Lewis biopic with Ryder, 18 at the time, acquitting herself well as the 13-year-old first cousin once removed who became Lewis’s first wife. She plays the chain-smoking Corky, a cabbie who dreams of becoming a mechanic. Unfortunately, Ryder is in the worst one. Jim Jarmusch’s portmanteau comedy comprises five tales of taxi-cab encounters from around the globe. Ryder essentially spends two hours taking advice from her elders over whether to marry a DIY enthusiast. Going straight from working with one female Australian director (Gillian Armstrong on Little Women) to another (Jocelyn Moorhouse) was a good move, even if the result second time around was less compelling. Maya Angelou (left), Ryder (centre) and Ellen Burstyn in How to Make an American Quilt.
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