Women and Wallace

Women love Wallace – but he can’t love them until he comes to terms with his mother’s death. Written by Jonathan Marc Sherman when he was only eighteen years old, WOMEN AND WALLACE is a poignant, insightful comedy about love and loss. Haunted by his mother’s suicide when he was only seven years old, Wallace cannot learn to connect with women. Even as a child, Wallace likes to write. His first essay, spoken to the camera, is about his mother, whom he adores because she takes good care of him. But after sending Wallace off to school one day, his mother kills herself. Wallace’s world is thrown into disarray, and even his beloved grandmother cannot console him. Over the years, as various women com into his life, Wallace struggles with his need to love and to be loved, and with his overwhelming fear that he will once more be abandoned. As directed by Don Scardino, a single actor (John Hamilton) plays Wallace at ages seven through twenty, and eight actresses play the women in Wallace’s life. Directed and designed in a bold and stylised manner, the program is nonetheless a very touching look at he confusion faced by one boy as he grows up.