Actress Lori Petty's gritty, emotionally charged directorial debut set in 1976 finds a teen girl named Agnes (Jennifer Lawrence) living in horrific conditions inside of a home dubbed "the poker house" for being a den of drugs, prostitution and gambling. Agnes and her sisters are used to dealing with their mother's drug addiction, but their lives are soon touched by triumph as well as tragedy. Selma Blair, David Alan Grier.