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Director:
Peter Bogdanovich
Writers (WGA):
Allan Gurganus (novel)
Joyce Eliason (teleplay)
Release Date:
17 August 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
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Cast

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Grant Show ... Jerry Shand

Cicely Tyson ... Vesta Battle

Lori Loughlin ... Leslie
George Wendt ... Sam

Cari Shayne ... Claire Gundry
Allan Gurganus
Rebecca Koon
Bob King ... Juel Shand (as Robert King)

Louise Stratten (as L.B. Straten)
Robby Preddy
Shannon Eubanks

Tommy Cresswell
Bart Hansard
Stephen Michael Ayers
Michael Flannery
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blessed Assurance (USA) (syndication title)
Assurance Paradis (Canada: French title) [fr]
Der falsche Weg zum Glück (Germany) [de]
Il prezzo del coraggio (Italy) [it]
Petollinen valinta (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
120 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo

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Failed attempt at comment and nostalgia., 13 February 2002
Author: Mozjoukine (Mozjoukine@yahoo.com.au) from Australia

It's not hard to see the maker of "Last Picture Show" in this one. There's even a scene set in a movie theater foyer with fifties titles by celebrity directors represented on the posters. However, the message that we grew up surrounded by a generation who didn't share our own sensitivity, is presented without the skill to make us believe it or want to believe it.

The heart on the sleeve sentiments are so predictable that we start wishing Korea veteran Show would go to medical school and get it on with with the vampy blonde piece whose daddy owns the cotton mill where his own daddy caught an industrial disease, instead of the childhood sweetheart whose family laundry he looks like he'll end up managing. This plot didn't fly all that well when it was Richard Barthlemess and Bette Davis in "Cabin in the Cotton."

The production values are good, setting the place in the racially exploitative American South, where our hero sells funeral insurance to the black poor, but the characters who front it are totally stock, despite the efforts of performers like George Wendt, to give them some dimension. Cicely Tyson is very brave trying to be a saintly, toothless, granny but, with her record, she should have known better.

Surprisingly it's Show, breaking free of the limitations of sex series soap, who manages to make the central character's conflict between his back ground, his ambition and his understanding of the unjust system he's supposed to continue, plausible, shaded and even despite the writing, quite involving.

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