Augusta, Gone

"Augusta, Gone" is a 2006 film directed by Tim Matheson and starring Mika Boorem, Sharon Lawrence and Tamara Hope.

Plot

Based on the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir by Martha Tod Dudman. The Movie begins one year earlier. Augusta is having an explosive fight with her parents. She then suddenly grabs a butcher knife and starts swinging it at them. She yells at them to just give up on her and let her live her own life and runs out of the house. It cuts to Martha with a look of shock and disbelief on her face.

The Movie then cuts to one year earlier. 15 year old Augusta (Mika Boorem) is a good spirited young artist. Her mother, Martha (Sharon Lawrence) is a divorced businesswoman who seems to share a good relationship with her daughter, but underneath the surface Augusta is very insecure and dissatisfied with her own life. Things get worse when Augusta makes friends with Rain, the local "bad girl". Rain introduces Augusta to her wild ways. Hesitant at first, Augusta slowly begins to accept Rain's wild ways and makes a drastic change in her life. She picks up drugs, shoplifting, skipping school, and disrespects authority. During this time Martha begins to notice the changes in her daughter and she begins to fear for her well-being; with nowhere to turn Martha, goes to a counselor for help.

The counselor tells Martha that to save her daughter, Augusta must be sent to a rehabilitation center for teens. Hesitant at first, Martha finally agrees, doubling the pain of her decision as Augusta is being sent away on Mother's day. The police find Augusta, and she is sent to the rehabilitations center. During the transfer Augusta angrily tells her mother that she hates her, and that she is dead to her. Martha is left in tears.

During the program Augusta meets Bridgett, a young girl who was raped by her father's best friend, but not believed. They become closer when they Bridgett gets Augusta to stop cutting herself in camp. During the program Augusta learns the consequences of her bad girl ways. At the end, Augusta seems to have changed, but the counselors don't seem to think so. So against Augusta's will, she is sent with Bridgett to a special school for delinquents.

During the Program Augusta meets a counselor who finally gets to Augusta, who realizes that she deserves to be there. She sits down with her parents, confesses her deeds and asks for forgiveness. Martha accepts and assures to Augusta that she will always love her and that she will never give up on her. The counselor lets Augusta spend time with her parents only if she promises not to run away. The thing that really gets Augusta to change her ways and realize how good she actually has it is that she sees Bridgett, who has nothing to return to, overdose on drugs. After the traumatic experience Augusta, who feels she is successfully rehabilitated, runs away from the program and gets in touch with her mother and asks to go home. Martha agrees but only if Augusta promises to leave her bad ways behind. Augusta promises to do so and gets a bus home. Martha meets her at the bus stop and they embrace and they go home the movie then cuts to the real Martha and Augusta and it tells how their life has been since the events of the book that Martha wrote and that the movie was based on.

Awards

Augusta, Gone was nominated for two Prism Awards, one for Tamara Hope (Performance in a TV-Movie) and the other for Sharon Lawrence (Performance in a TV-Movie)

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*imdb title|0495023