The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)

Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents’ home after being seduced by the family’s portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as “Jo”, a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can “Little Jo” live and love without revealing his/her secret?
Maggie Greenwald
Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung, Heather Graham, René Auberjonois, Carrie Snodgress, Anthony Heald, Melissa Leo, Sam Robards, Olinda Turturro, Ruth Maleczech, Jeffrey Andrews, Cathy Haase, Peadair S. Addie Sr., Irina V. Passmoore, Michael Ruud, Sasha Pasmur, David Ruben Plowman, Rusty Pegar, Troy Smith, Keith Kamppinen, Jenny Lynch, Vince O’Neil, Vince O’Neil, Barbara Jean Marsh, Robert Erickson, Sean Murphy, Renee Tafoya, Richard Osterman, Karen Johnson, Jaime Crabtree, Tracy Mayfield, Julianne Kirst, Deborah J. Richard, Netha Goodrich, Becca Busch, Jim Dunkin, Homer Simon, Eryn L. Bent, Peter Plowman, Joe Freed, Anne Plowman, Melissa Ladvala, Yeugeuiy Yasyriu, Tom Bower
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