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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.
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.
Babe (Spacek) decided to shoot her husband after he put an end to her affair with a precocious teenage neighbor boy. Lenny (Keaton) met a Tennessee man through one of those lonely hearts clubs but broke it off because of insecurity about a shrunken ovary.
Crimes of the Heart takes place after five years of Hurricane Camille. It was a time of significant events in American society. The characters in the play, however, are unmoved by the circumstances of the outside world. They are trapped in their personal life and crises.
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