Crimes of the Heart

Name: Crimes of the Heart
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: January 23, 1987
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Beeson Carroll, David Carpenter, Diane Keaton, Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willard

1987

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De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) | Release Date: January 23, 1987 | PG-13

Starring: Beeson Carroll, David Carpenter, Diane Keaton, Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willard, Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek, Tess Harper, Tom Mason

Summary: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid. Meg, who aspires to make it in Hollywood as a singer and actress, has had a wild, man-filled life. Their reunion is joyful but also stirsThree sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid. Meg, who aspires to make it in Hollywood as a singer and actress, has had a wild, man-filled life. Their reunion is joyful but also stirs up much tension.… Expand

Director: Bruce Beresford

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 105 min

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Director Bruce Beresford keeps stars Sissy Spacek, Jessica Lange, and Diane Keaton firmly rooted in the deep, dark black humor of Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. [01 Jul 2014, p.G15]

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Thoughtfully cast, superbly acted and masterfully written and directed, Crimes of the Heart is a winner. Read full review

Roger Ebert

It exists somewhere between parody and melodrama, between the tragic and the goofy. There are moments when the movie doesn't seem to know where it's going, but for once that's a good thing because the uncertainty almost always ends with some kind of a delightful, weird surprise. Read full review

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Occasional bursts of delicious tragic humour nevertheless make this a not unlikeable 'feminist' mood piece. Read full review

David Sterritt

The director, Bruce Beresford, is so eager to crowd the screen with eccentric details of behavior and setting that the verbal subtleties and rhythms get twisted out of shape. Sissy Spacek, Jessica Lange, and Diane Keaton give all-out performances that occasionally jell into true ensemble work. [12 Dec 1986, p.35]

Paul Attanasio

Crimes of the Heart is a well-intentioned effort, but also a deeply misguided one -- Henley's humor, while suited to the stage, disintegrates in a more literal-minded medium. Read full review

Sheila Benson

It is excruciating: a combination of Beth Henley’s insistently eccentric screenplay, Bruce Beresford’s frenzied direction and the sight of three singular talents on an acting roller coaster with no one riding the brakes. Read full review

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