Of course, Ocean City, New Jersey, turns out to be Imogene's Kansas: it quickly becomes obvious that the rest of the movie will bring about her reconciliation with her home town, her family, and her past (including the mysterious story of her late father).
One of the central stories in women's tennis the past two years has been the surfacing of Justine Henin's emotions — her divorce, her reconciliation with her estranged family, the sense of a happier woman emerging on court and off.
Through Henin's divorce and her reconciliation with her family members — who were back in Belgium — she saw her tennis transform along with her personality.
Meryl has a baby-clock issue, but this is allowed to play no part in her reconciliation with her husband, since that has to be entirely romantically motivated.
The singer-and-actress who wore pajamas to her "Battleship premiere" — it's called a trend, people, and it was Pucci, so get over it — defends her reconciliation with her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.
Antigone returns to Greece too late for her son, but in time to attempt a reconciliation with her family and her past: from youthful rebellion under the Nazi occupation, through the dark days of the Dekemvriana, to resistance under the military junta.
Maybe it's a product of her recent divorce or reconciliation with her family, but Henin is working toward rehabbing her image.
Rita finds the power of love: love with gay partners and love rediscovered with her mother and her family of origin, and finally -- as the book details -- reconciliation with her father before his death and all the more so after he passes.
Isabella Sargsyan, who promotes Armenian-Turkish reconciliation, remembers her first meeting as a teenager with a Turk from Kars, her family's ancestral home, and bursting into tears, lost for words.
The next year he had the same experience while watching her Academy Award-nominated performance as a dying mom resisting a reconciliation with her daughter in "Pieces of April".
