![]() Pfizer, it seems, would like to build a big plant to pump out its newly discovered miracle drug Viagra along with a gentrified playground featuring a luxury hotel, health club and high-end condos. ![]() Along the way, she makes friends with an outspoken, activist-minded deli owner (Colin Cunningham), who is struggling to make ends meet, and a gray-haired fox of an antiques vendor (Callum Keith Rennie), who eventually wins her heart.īut a couple years after her move, Susette and her salt-of-the-earth neighbors get a rude awakening when they learn of plans to bulldoze their properties. That sequence had me wishing that Keener, who subtly brings out the old hippie-like soul in her character, had her own show on HGTV – especially when she ingeniously fixes a leaky faucet with a tampon. ![]() She falls in love with a Victorian fixer-upper by the river – no matter that it is near a sewage plant - and proceeds to turn it into a cozy pink-hued abode. I’m leaving.” Susette decides to retreat to the run-down, working-class area near New London, Conn., where she grew up. There’s a brief early flashback to a terse letter she’s written to her soon-to-be ex-second husband that states, “I need to find peace. The landmark case would eventually be tried by the Supreme Court in 2005 with Susette as the plaintiff. It is not so surprising, then, that Susette would end up being the compelling face and voice of a nearly decade-long legal battle that would pit Big Pharma against blue-collar residents over the right of their town’s officials to invoke “eminent domain” to force them out of their humble abodes. Just the way she tends to the ailing mother of an old classmate and puts her at ease during an ambulance ride suggests she would be someone you would want to be at your side in a fight. Within the first few minutes of Little Pink House, the two-time Oscar nominee swiftly establishes real-life paramedic and nurse Susette Kelo as a thoughtful and quietly alluring life force to be reckoned with. May we all be so lucky to have an always-mesmerizing actress like Catherine Keener play us if our lives ever inspire a film.
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