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Format: Laserdisc
May 1994
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: Stereo
Closed Captioned
93 min.
UPC: 096894172367 |
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Movie Description
A simple but guileless woman is found to be socially unacceptable for her naive habit of always telling the truth. She loses her job, is jilted and finally becomes involved in a dangerous love triangle with the only friend she trusts and a mysterious drifter.
Synopsis
Martha Horgan works at the local dry-cleaning establishment and she lives with her sultry, rich, aunt Frances, who runs a California ranch. A little "slow" and very overweight, Martha doesn't know much about men, so she's never had a boyfriend. When she meets the local workman, Mackey, she's especially vulnerable to his flirtatious side. One thing leads to another and she finds herself in love and trouble when Mackey gets her pregnant. But matters get worse when, a betrayal by Mackey sends Martha into a jealous, murderous rage.
Film Notes
Shot in Fotokem color on Eastmancolor film.
This film's husband-and-wife team is director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, who adapted the story from Mary McGarry Morris' much acclaimed 1991 novel. Director Gyllenhaal, also made "Paris Trout" and "Waterland."
Principal Barbara Hershey, who plays the seductive Frances, began he career in the 60s on the television show "Gidget." When she was still at Hollywood High School she landed a part as Gidget's girlfriend and was featured in few episodes.
Hershey's first film role was "With Six You Get Eggroll," a film that starred Doris Day. Her big break didn't come until she won the role of a troubled beautiful adolescent girl in Frank Perry's "Last Summer." Since then Hershey been featured in "The Last Temptation of Christ," "Beaches," "Tin Men," "The Public Eye" and "Falling Down."
Some of Debra Winger's film credits include: "Thank God it's Friday" (1978), "Urban Cowboys" (1980), "Cannery Row" (1982). For "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982) and "Terms of Endearment" (1983) she won Oscar nominations. Later came "Legal Eagles" (1986), "Black Widow" (1987), "Betrayed" (1988), "The Sheltering Sky" (1990) and "Wider Napalm" (1993).
Winger made her TV debut as Drusilla the Wonder Girl on "Wonder Woman."
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Copyright 1993 Amblin Entertainment, Inc.
Available to rent in the UK.
Industry Reviews
"...[Winger gives] an eerily convincing performance....Appealingly languid and intimate..."
Maslin
"...Absorbing....[The] film's main attraction is [the] totally change-of-pace performance by Debra Winger....It is fascinating..."
Variety - Todd McCarthy (09/27/1993)
Quotations
"The story of a woman no one noticed until it was too late." -- marketing line for the film
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