 The film won the Audience Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, prompting several distributors to enter into a bidding war in response to the positive buzz, but when the movie was finally released, critics as a whole responded less favorably than they had at Sundance.The movie was the basis for the 2001 Off-Broadway musical of the same name by James Valcq and Fred Alley.The story centers on a young woman named Percy (Alison Elliott) who was recently released from prison.