IMDb plot summary: Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.
Directed by Tony Richardson. Starring Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, and Carrie Snodgress.
The shining piece of this film is Jessica Lange's performance. She does such an incredible job at making this character more than the caricature she could be. We can see her fears and her thought processes and root for her to do the right thing and not fall into her self-destructive habits, and in the later half of the movie when she really does step up into being the protagonist, it's a really lovely moment. I also appreciate the frequent focus on the children of this marriage and how their parents' volatility affects them even as they've learned to live with it as a constant factor in their lives. A messy movie at times but worth seeing for Lange if nothing else.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Blue Sky > To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Blue Sky < Chronicle
Blue Sky > Harakiri
Blue Sky < Full Metal Jacket
Blue Sky < Suspicion
Blue Sky < Kajaki
Blue Sky < Starship Troopers
Blue Sky > Kiss Me Kate
Blue Sky > I Saw the Devil
Blue Sky > Charlie St. Cloud
Blue Sky > Being John Malkovich
Blue Sky < The Age of Adaline
Final spot: #1216 out of 3308, or 63%.
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