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Frances (1982)
From Amazon:
Jessica Lange gives a career performance in a role she was born to play: the talented and troubled Frances Farmer. Farmer's awful trajectory travels from bright Seattle girl to 1930s Hollywood starlet to degraded (eventually lobotomized) mental patient. Lange, who has the blond, clean look of Farmer's heyday, goes into these places with the fierce abandon of a true believer. Her performance, the lush John Barry score, and the period re-creation are all worth applauding; almost everything else fails. Everyone except Farmer is grotesquely caricatured to fit the movie's thesis, which is that if you are intelligent and nonconformist, the system...
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| Frances Movie Review by BillyBob (3/10/2008) |
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I had wanted to do a review on the actress, Frances Farmer, but since she wasn't listed in the database I opted to do my review of her here. The 3 stars are for how I rate the movie, not how I would rate Frances Farmer, the person.
Never-mind the tragic life of any other Hollywood celebrities, Frances Farmer has got to be...
(complete Frances review by BillyBob)
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