Ashley Judd Movie, “Big Stone Gap,” Coming This Fall

Picturehouse will be releasing “Big Stone Gap” this fall. It was filmed on location in Virginia and stars Ashley Judd as Ave Maria Mulligan, who lives a simple life with her mother, runs the pharmacy, directs the real-life tourist attraction called the The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama. Mulligan hopes that Theodore Tipton, her best friend and the high school band director, will take their platonic friendship in a romantic direction. But she has been waiting for a long time. Now she sees herself as the old maid of Big Stone Gap, and decides that happiness is for other people – that is, until a long-buried family secret throws her quiet life spectacularly off-course. The cast includes Patrick Wilson,Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony La Paglia and Jenna Elfman.