What Maisie Knew

In this thin-plot, low-key, heartbreaking, 93-minute film based on the Henry James 1897 novella, a surprisingly well-adjusted, 7-year-old girl (Onata Aprile) in New York is shuffled among her horrifyingly neglectful, middle-aged, singing rock star mother (Julianne Moore); her continually distracted, biological, art-dealing father (Steve Coogan) who spends most of his time abroad; her well-meaning, bartending stepfather (Alexander SkarsgÄrd); and her caring former-nanny-turned stepmother (Joanna Vanderham) while the parents fight over her in an ongoing custody battle.
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