Tallulah

In TALLULAH, the title character (Elliot Page) is a vagabond living a hand-to-mouth existence in a van with her boyfriend. When her boyfriend leaves her and goes back to New York City, she drives straight to Manhattan. Homeless and hungry, she tries to con her boyfriend's mother Margot (Allison Janney) into giving her money and possibly a place to stay. When the mother refuses, Tallulah sneaks into a hotel and starts eating the scraps of room service food left in the hall. While doing this, a drunk woman named Carolyn (Tammy Blanchard), believing Tallulah to be an employee of the hotel, begs her to babysit her baby daughter while she pursues her extramarital affair. When the woman returns drunk, Tallulah decides to kidnap the baby. She returns to Margot's apartment, claiming the baby is hers and that Margot is a grandmother. A friendship slowly develops between Tallulah and Margot as Margot tries to come to terms with her failed marriage and not seeing her son in two years. As Margot tries to finally move on with her life, Tallulah finds her deceptions to be increasingly difficult to maintain, especially when the police, the news, and Carolyn are determined to find the missing baby.