Best Actress 2013: Naomi Watts, Sunlight Jr.

Lauri Collyer (Sherrybaby) directed her own screenplay Sunlight Jr., a relational drama about a convenience store attendent (Naomi Watts) who lives in a motel with her handicapped boyfriend (Matt Dillon).  If their lives weren't tough enough, she gets pregnant, loses her job, and I imagine more bleakness follows.  Filmed in Clearwater, Florida, the cast includes Norman Reedus and Tess Harper.  Of course, with Diana on the horizon, biographies almost always trump anything else, so, unless her Melissa experiences tragedy of epic proportions like losing her husband to a drunk driver or tsunami, this film's Best Actress chances are probably as dire as her character's circumstances.

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