Diane Keaton
Lennora Josephine 'Lenny' Magrath
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Jan 23, 1987 · Crimes of the Heart: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard. Three southern sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Bruce Beresford
- 1987-01-23
Crimes of the Heart is a 1986 American black comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford from a screenplay written by Beth Henley adapted from her Pulitzer Prize -winning 1979 play of the same name. It stars Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, and Hurd Hatfield.
Crimes of the Heart is a play by American playwright Beth Henley. It is set in Hazlehurst, Mississippi in the mid-20th century. The play won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. In 1986, the play was novelized and released as a book, written by Claudia Reilly.
- Beth Henley
- 1982
Crimes Of The Heart. Roger Ebert December 12, 1986. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Crimes of the Heart" is that most delicate of undertakings: a comedy about serious matters. It exists somewhere between parody and melodrama, between the tragic and the goofy.
The three MaGrath sisters are back together in their hometown of Hazelhurst, Mississippi for the first time in a decade. Lenny, the eldest, never left Hazelhurst -- she is the caretaker of the sisters’ cantankerous Old Granddaddy.
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- Drama
- PG-13
Crimes of the Heart (1986) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
