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First-time director Joey Lauren Adams (Amy of Chasing Amy's fame) has crafted an honest and heartfelt look at the lives of women in middle America. Never condescending or overdramatic, her film aims at showing how despair can become the result of a hopeless environment and unhappy upbringing. While she never tries to find any excuses for her main character, she clearly denounces macho southern culture. Mostly a work on realism and emotion, this vignette about the condition of Woman in Middle America isn't any breakthrough moment of contemporary cinema and probably would have passed unnoticed if it weren't for the performance of Ashley Judd, truly incandescent onscreen. Her interpretation is subdued, the actress looking like a fading flower without however overdoing it with that kind of "watch me I deserve an Oscar" look so many actors and actresses exhibit in these types of destructive roles. Sometimes the combination of a simple story and basic ingredients manage to reach the audience deeper than they expected and this is certainly what happens with Come Early Morning, a small film but a humble achievement.
 
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