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Overview

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Director:
Antonio Banderas
Writers (WGA):
Mark Childress (novel)
Mark Childress (screenplay)
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Release Date:
22 October 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Comedy more
Tagline:
Sometimes you have to lose your mind to find your freedom
Plot:
An abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
This movie still works so well for me! more (68 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Melanie Griffith ... Lucille Vinson

David Morse ... Dove Bullis

Lucas Black ... Peter Joseph 'Peejoe' Bullis
Cathy Moriarty ... Earlene Bullis

Meat Loaf ... Sheriff John Doggett (as Meat Loaf Aday)

Rod Steiger ... Judge Louis Mead

Richard Schiff ... Norman the Chauffeur
John Beasley ... Nehemiah Jackson

Robert Wagner ... Harry Hall
Noah Emmerich ... Sheriff Raymond

Sandra Seacat ... Meemaw

Paul Ben-Victor ... D.A. Mackie (as Paul Ben Victor)

Brad Beyer ... Jack
Fannie Flagg ... Sally the Waitress

Elizabeth Perkins ... Joan Blake
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence, thematic material, language and a scene of sensuality.
Runtime:
111 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
Two of Lucille's children are played by Melanie Griffith's real-life children: Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas. more
Quotes:
Peejoe: Life and death are only temporary, but freedom goes on forever. more
Movie Connections:
Features "Bewitched: It Takes One to Know One (#1.11)" (1964) more
Soundtrack:
We Shall Overcome more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
This movie still works so well for me!, 14 March 2008
8/10
Author: danvan346-1 from United States

I am in the process of trying to clean out an oversupply of VHS tapes and some of them are so easy to toss. Not this one. I had to sit down and watch it again and now I could only get rid of the VHS if I had it on DVD! I have not watched this movie in more than six years and it was "feel good" and "feel" all over again. David Morse is always wonderful. Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Elizabeth Perkins, and many others are just a treat to watch. There's something about Melanie. I can't help liking her - even when I am finding fault with her. This movie really is strange with its incredibly serious (and gruesome) subject matter of a woman who methodically murders and decapitates her husband and then carries his head around with her - first in Tupperware and then in a very stylish hat box! The surprising part is that there is any plausibility at all, but it somehow existed for me. It had a strange feeling floating about it that was akin to "Forrest Gump" or "Nurse Betty", because it involved situations that were truly horrible, but everything kept working out for a sweet and naive character. The civil rights story was a very poignant counterpoint to the fantastic silliness of Lucille's odyssey. If I were a film student I may have sat there and criticized the way things came together, but I just watched it with an untrained eye, so it was fine. I certainly would have made the connection about a freedom theme even if they hadn't come out and stated it in the end. No one says a story has to be believable or plausible for it to work. This did work. I laughed a lot when I least expected to.

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