Sweet Dreams (1985 film)
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The movie is about Frances Farmer, a beautiful and talented movie star from the 1930s and 1940s who had a streak of, independence and a compulsion toward self-destruction, and who went about as high and about as low as it is possible to go in one lifetime. Advertisement. She came out of Seattle as a high school essay-contest winner and budding ...
67% Tomatometer 30 Reviews 78% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings This biopic explores the true story of Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange), a mold-breaking actress from Seattle who moved to Hollywood ...
- (30)
- Graeme Clifford
- R
- Jessica Lange
Mar 11, 1983 · Frances: Directed by Graeme Clifford. With Jonathan Banks, Bonnie Bartlett, James Brodhead, Bart Burns. The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
- (8.6K)
- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Graeme Clifford
- 1983-03-11
Jessica Lange is absolutely mesmerizing. The movie suffers from what most biopics suffer from, A chronological succession of events and in the case of Frances Farmer, from bad the worse to much, much worse. The movie will drain you but the performance will keep you alert, alive, transfixed.
Frances is a 1982 American biographical drama film directed by Graeme Clifford from a screenplay written by Eric Bergren, Christopher De Vore, and Nicholas Kazan. The film stars Jessica Lange as Frances Farmer, a troubled actress during the 1930s whose career suffered as a result of her mental illness. It also features Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard ...
May 16, 2013 · Frances (Gerwig) at age 27 finds herself in that Janus-like, post-college phase where part of her seems to want to retreat to the womb, or at least Vassar, while another part wants to forge confidently into the realities of grown-up life in New York. For the moment, she’s stuck between the poles, going round and round.
Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 6, 2016. Dave Kehr Chicago Reader. TOP CRITIC. Jessica Lange brings so much energy and personal involvement to her portrayal of Frances Farmer that you can ...
