Christina Ricci

as Carolyn McDuffy

Hank Harris

as Pumpkin Romanoff

Brenda Blethyn

as Judy Romanoff

Dominique Swain

as Jeanine Kryszinsky

Marisa Coughlan

as Julie Thurber

Sam Ball

as Kent Woodlands

Harry Lennix

as Robert Meary (Poetry teacher)

Nina Foch

as Betsy Collander