MICHELLE Monaghan plays a trashy “Trucker” chick who finds the lug nuts of her heart being loosened by a new relationship with the son she barely knows.
Benjamin Bratt plays her ex, who gets cancer and is forced to send the lad back to the tough-talking, independent-minded, barroom-prowling lady who dumped him 10 years ago.
Monaghan does a reasonably good job with a formulaic script that calls for her to become prettier and more feminine as she learns to be a mama bear to her smart-mouthed but ultimately adorable kid.
There is some heart to the movie and even occasional moments of wit. Her beleaguered would-be boyfriend (Nathan Fillion) asks, “What would you say if I leaned in a little right now?” Replies Monaghan, “I guess I’d tell you when you got here.” Strip away the alt-country soundtrack, though, and you’ve got a Bette Davis fallen-woman-redeemed picture from 1937.
Running time: 93 minutes. Rated R (profanity, sexual situations). At the Village East, Second Avenue and 12th Street.