martha plimpton have do some prestigious movie and work with river phoenix and harrison ford and but she be never able to expand her limited and tomboyish appeal into the same class a and say and molly ringwald . this film and which be barely release and be just an extension of her late 80 or early 90 attempt to find a screen persona which be identifiable to moviegoer and and it represent another failure . plimpton play a troubled young woman who find out on her 21st birthday that she be adopt and bad than that be actually abandon a an infant on her parent doorstep . she set out to find her biological mother and father and but the viewer have no clue why she would even want to ( would simple curiosity give her this much determination . ) . unattractive material give sitcom handle while it start off on the wrong foot and never recovers . plimpton give a sour and surly performance and but hector elizondo and mary kay place be fine a her adoptive parent . half from .