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Frances (1982)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:14
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: FRANCES tells the life story of independent, strong-willed actress Frances Farmer, whose beauty, talent, and intelligence lead to a successful stage and film career in the 1930s and 1940s.... FRANCES tells the life story of independent, strong-willed actress Frances Farmer, whose beauty, talent, and intelligence lead to a successful stage and film career in the 1930s and 1940s. Tragically, her mental health soon began to deteriorate due to substance abuse, poor psychiatric care, a controlling stage mother, and her own radical and unyielding beliefs. [More]
Starring: Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns
Starring: Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns
Director: Graeme Clifford
Director: Graeme Clifford
Screenwriter: Eric Bergren, Christopher DeVore, Nicholas Kazan
Composer: John Barry
Producer: Jonathan Sanger
Reviews for Frances
Jessica Lange and Kim Stanley give superb performances as the troubled actress Frances Farmer and her domineering mother, compensating for the shapeless narrative, which is too ridden with cliches of showbiz biopics.
Lange is wonderful, and provides a searing, tremendous reason to see a film that would otherwise collapse under even a moment of analytical pressure.
Jessica Lange's outstanding performance offers an intriguing portrait of Frances Farmer, an actress who marched to the beat of her own drummer and paid the price.
Despite the cardboard characters she's surrounded by, Jessica Lange single-handedly makes this depressing film worth watching.
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