Crimes of the Heart
Time Out says
When Meg (Lange) steps off the Greyhound bus, trailing behind her a blown-out singing career and a series of failed relationships, Babe (Spacek) has just emptied a gunful of lead into her noxious senator husband, and buttoned-up, neurotic Lenny (Keaton) is singing herself 'Happy Birthday' all alone in the kitchen. The stage is set for an escalating black farce on the theme of broken dreams; but all we get, sadly, is a meandering display of half-hearted Mississippi drawl as these three dizzy sisters wander from room to room trading reminiscence and recrimination. Symptomatically, it is only when Meg and her old flame (Shepard) take off to the bayou that the movie starts to sing. Elsewhere, Beresford fails to generate sufficient chemistry to bind the performances. Occasional bursts of delicious tragic humour nevertheless make this a not unlikeable 'feminist' mood piece.
Details
Release details
Duration:
105 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Bruce Beresford
Screenwriter:
Beth Henley
Cast:
Diane Keaton
Jessica Lange
Sissy Spacek
Sam Shepard
Tess Harper
Hurd Hatfield
David Carpenter
Jessica Lange
Sissy Spacek
Sam Shepard
Tess Harper
Hurd Hatfield
David Carpenter
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