SUNLIGHT JR. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty.
A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own. Hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa and her disabled boyfriend Richie are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. Through this adversity, the couple realizes … SUNLIGHT JR. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. Through this adversity, the couple … The couple must come to grips with their dire financial situation while in the midst … Their luck may be changing when they learn that Melissa has become pregnant. Sunlight Jr. (2013) Plot Summary (2) A Florida couple deals with an unexpected pregnancy while holding minimum wage jobs. The film is a poignant vignette following a couple expecting their first child. Sunlight Jr. casts Watts and Dillon as Melissa and Richie, a convenience store clerk ... Not much happens in the plot except despair, especially after Melissa learns of her pregnancy. Their luck may be changing when they learn that Melissa has become pregnant. Sunlight Jr. ist ein Drama aus dem Jahr 2013 von Laurie Collyer mit Naomi Watts, Matt Dillon und Norman Reedus. She approves of her daughter's new beau—not that her standards are that high: "Richie don't hit you. Hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa and her disabled boyfriend Richie are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. The couple must come to grips with their dire financial situation while in the midst of an unplanned pregnancy and its subsequent challenges.
—Anonymous. Sunlight Jr. is a 2013 American drama film directed by Laurie Collyer and starring Matt Dillon and Naomi Watts. Their luck may be changing when they learn that Melissa has become pregnant. Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in Sunlight Jr. is a 2013 American drama film directed by Laurie Collyer and starring Matt Dillon and Naomi Watts. Sunlight Jr. is unblinking in its bleak depiction of its main characters’ plight. Set in the underbelly of usually sunny Florida, Melissa Winters (two-time Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts) works as a cashier at the local convenience store, SUNLIGHT JR. She lives in a seedy motel with her boyfriend Richie (Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon), a former TV repairman who lives month-to-month on his government disability check, spending most of it at a neighborhood tavern. SUNLIGHT JR. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. SUNLIGHT JR. spotlights hard-working convenience store clerk Melissa (Naomi Watts) and her disabled boyfriend, Richie (Matt Dillon), who are trapped in a generational cycle of poverty. But as soon as she loses her job and they get evicted from the motel they live in, their joy vanishes.