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Frances

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Time Out says

The sad life of '30s and '40s actress Frances Farmer is surely the stuff of melodrama: the story of an intelligent, uncompromising young actress with strong radical political opinions, who fell or was pushed from grace in Hollywood and ended up undergoing a lobotomy in an asylum. But in this version the vein becomes increasingly American Gothic; the potential romantic exploration of the American Left is abandoned in favour of a concentration on the star's incarceration in a series of increasingly Hogarthian asylums. Indeed, Farmer, as scripted here and played by Lange, unsurprisingly remains something of a cypher.
Written by VG

Release Details

  • Duration:140 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Graeme Clifford
  • Screenwriter:Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore, Nicholas Kazan
  • Cast:
    • Jessica Lange
    • Sam Shepard
    • Kim Stanley
    • Bart Burns
    • Christopher Pennock
    • James Karen
    • Kevin Costner
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