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"Stare offers earthy charms, humor and intriguing insights that come from locating and gently probing common denominators that make up the routines of ordinary lives." Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times I Stare at You and Dream is a slice of life melodrama that celebrates the extraordinary in the ordinary. Set in Los Angeles' Latino Highland Park neighborhood, filmmaker Susan Mogul and her three friends reveal their struggles, wounds and romantic entanglements in the context of their everyday lives. Rosie Sanchez, a single Mom, works in her parents' restaurant; Rosie's teenage daughter, wise-cracking and voluptuous Alex, is a poet whose jobs range from clerking at Thrifty's to being a phone sex operator; and Ray Aguilar, a single Dad, is an enigmatic contractor with a prison past. Never-married, childless and forty-something, Mogul dwells on both the stability and fragility of personal relationships with amazing candor: her long-standing friendship with Rosie, Rosie's comical mother/daughter tensions with Alex, and her own conflicted romance with Ray. Deceptively funny, but full of mournful undercurrents, Stare is an intimate film about loss and longing, love, sacrifice, and hope. This award winning film has screened internationally at film festivals, and was televised on PBS stations throughout the USA. Stare was produced for ITVS with funds from the CPB.

I Stare At You And Dream is a 2008 documentary with a runtime of 56 minutes.