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Passion Fish

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Passion Fish
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R,2hrs 16min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1992
Director:
John Sayles
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, David Strathairn  ...more
Synopsis: With his trademark emphasis on character development and dialogue, writer/director John Sayles tells the story of May-Alice Culhane (Mary McDonnell), a New York soap opera actress left paralyzed by a car accident. As the film opens, she lies in a hospital bed, confused and scared, watching her own show on TV and shrieking, "That was supposed to be my closeup!" With no other options, she returns to her family's old and empty Southern home, where she drinks hard, offends every caregiver, and wallows ... Full Synopsis
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Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
Character and dialogue are the driving forces in writer-director John Sayles's movies. In Passion Fish, Sayles delivers a quality screenplay, and Mary McDonnell and Alfre Woodard do his script justice with some of the most accomplished work of their careers. McDonnell -- who also stood out in the director's Matewan -- brings surprising originality to the role of the haggard, self-pitying accident ... Full Review
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Mary McDonnell
Mary-Alice Culhane
Alfre Woodard
Chantelle
David Strathairn
Rennie
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Sugar LeDoux
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