


Adele has three miscarriages and one stillbirth, which leads to her husband divorcing her. Babies Make Everything Better: Strongly averted.

This is intentional, as the novel describes her as a beautiful women who kept her figure, whilst all the other mothers are showing their age. Absurdly Youthful Mother: Adele looks very young to have a 13-year-old son.After Adele assures him that they'll be together, and the three of them toy with the idea of being a family, the police chase heats up. Henry meets a girl, who plants in his mind that Adele and Frank will leave him. After he teaches them to bake a peach pie, Adele and Henry become intoxicated by him and urge him to stay. The following day, Frank helps out around the house, teaching Henry how to throw a baseball. He cooks them dinner, then stays for the night. They discover that Frank is a criminal on the run, who promises to leave, staging that he kidnapped them. Adele, initially apprehensive, feels compelled to save her son and reluctantly agrees to take him back to their house. Over Labor Day weekend in 1987, depressed, single mother Adele Wheeler (Winslet) and her teenage son Henry head to a local store, where Henry encounters Frank Chambers (Brolin), a wounded, fearsome man covered in blood who asks him for a ride.

Labor Day is a 2013 American drama film based on the 2009 novel by Joyce Maynard, directed by Jason Reitman and starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin.
