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| ACTORS: | Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | May, 1988 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Studios |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 085393707637 |
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Customer Reviews of Shy People
Shy People Please excuse me if I'm a little off, it has been about 5 years since I've seen the movie. It's a good movie if you like the independant style films. Big city girl, Martha Plimpton, travels with her journalist mother to the backwoods of Louisiana (I think...) to "study" her back woods relatives. Meets cousins pregnant wife who wants to get away from it all and find out what 'the big city' is all about, a mentally disabled cousin, and yet another cousin who has benn locked in a shed for years for talking, what seems to be, the truth about their dead father. The "Momma" can't seem to let go of the dead father either. The expectant Dad is played by Patrick Swayze's brother, who in the movie tries to rape Martha Plimpton.
Sounds quite dumb when you break it down like that but I thought it was a decent movie.
Boring to the extreme
It gives a dark feeling of a typical Soviet movie. Two hours of no chemistry, no actions, no romance and no nothing. They probably wanted to show us several deep physiological characters under the microscope in a very substandard manner. But who want to see them? This is one of the most boring movies I have ever seen.
THE CITY MOUSE MEETS THE COUNTRY MOUSE...
This is an unusual film with a knockout performance by Barbara Hershey, who deservedly won the 1987 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award for her brilliant and moving portrayal of Ruth Sullivan, a fiercely proud, backwoods, bayou matriarch, who resorts to unusual tactics to keep her sons from the outside world.
The story centers around the Sullivan family, the East Coast and Louisiana branches. It turns out that the East Coast branch is headed up by magazine editor, Diana Sullivan (Jill Clayburgh), who decides to write a piece about her southern relatives. Diana heads down South with her spoiled, teenage daughter (Martha Plimpton).
When they gets down there, they are is taken aback by what they find. This Southern branch of the Sullivan family seems like a throwback to another era. The first word that pops into the viewer's mind is "inbreeding", so backwards do they seem. The East Coast Sullivans are wealthy and overdressed for their new environs. The Bayou Sullivans do not even have electricity. Still, they try to socialize and get to know one another, after an initial standoff.
The outside world has now invaded Ruth's home, and some of Ruth's stern notions have invaded Diane's psyche. This becomes manifest at the end in the new way in which they each decide to handle their rebellious offspring. One can tell that Ruth and Diane have each touched the other in some meaningful way. This does not happen, however, before there have been some serious clashes.
It is hard to describe this film, as it is not a plot driven film. What little plot there is, is a bit implausible. It is just a highly unusual, character driven film, and the one who drives it is Barbara Hershey with a performance so awesome, it will take the viewer's breath away. With a stellar supporting cast, it is film not to be missed.
Filmed in the heart of Cajun country, the cinematography is magnificent, with incredible shots of the mist shrouded bayou with its unusual terrain and fauna. It makes for a haunting and highly atmospheric film.