Synopsis

Josephine Monaghan is a young woman of the mid-19th century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to an illegitimate child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the Wild West. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier-mining town. When she takes in a Chinese man as her worker, the traditional roles of what defines a man and a woman are reversed, as she struggles to live her life on her own terms.

DVD Release: September 2, 2003

Directed by: Maggie Greenwald
Starring: Suzy Amis, Ian McKellen, Heather Graham, Sam Robards and Bo Hopkins