Blue Sky (1994)
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74% of critics liked it
(19 reviews) -
51% of users liked it
(3,673 ratings)
Blue Sky was the last film directed by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) before his death in 1991 and one of the last releases from once-thriving Orion Films, whose bankruptcy kept the picture on the shelf for several years. It also features two career-high performances by Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica… More Blue Sky was the last film directed by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) before his death in 1991 and one of the last releases from once-thriving Orion Films, whose bankruptcy kept the picture on the shelf for several years. It also features two career-high performances by Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Lange, who won the Best Actress Oscar for this role, as Hank and Carly Marshall, a military couple whose marriage unravels under the pressure of his job and her mental instability. Hank is an Army captain at odds with his superiors over the wisdom of nuclear testing. Carly is a free spirit spiralling into a dangerous depression after the family's move from Hawaii to a nowhere base in Alabama alarms the couple's older daughter (Amy Locane) and sends Carly into an affair with the base commander (Powers Boothe). ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
- Directed By
- Tony Richardson
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Sep 16, 1994 Wide
- On DVD
- Oct 24, 2006
- Studio
- Orion Home Video
Critic Reviews
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Rob Gonsalves, eFilmCritic.com
Jones and Lange at their best.
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Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
Persuasively alive... The movie is sufficiently at odds with itself to be both frustrating and intriguing.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
There are two reasons to see this preposterously plotted military-marital melodrama: Jessica Lange's Oscar-winning performance and the fact that it became Brit Tony Richrdson's very last work.
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James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
Lange and Jones are an electrifying couple
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Chris Hicks, Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Even without that lumpy subplot, Blue Sky is wildly uneven and is virtually held together most of the way by the performances of its stars.
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Cast
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Jessica Lange
as Carly Marshall
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Tommy Lee Jones
as Hank Marshall
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Powers Boothe
as Vince Johnson
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Carrie Snodgress
as Vera Johnson
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Amy Locane
as Alex Marshall
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Chris O'Donnell
as Glen Johnson
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Mitchell Ryan
as Ray Stevens
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Dale Dye
as Colonel Mike Anwalt
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Annie Ross
as Lydia
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Anna Klemp
as Becky Marshall
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Dion Anderson
as General Derrick
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Donna Biscoe
as Officer's Wife
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David Bradford
as First Soldier
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Gary Bullock
as Doctor Vankay
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Rod Masterson
as Reporter
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Sean McGraw
as Reporter
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Angela Paton
as Dottie Owens
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Clarinda Ross
as Officers Wife
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Timothy Scott
as Ned Owens
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Libby Whittemore
as Officers Wife
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David Dwyer
as Newscaster
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Rene Rokk
as NATO Officer
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Richard Jones
as Jimmy
- Anthony Rene Jones
- Ed Corbin
- Jay H. Seidl
- Matt Battaglia
- Mitch Ryan
- Timothy Bottoms
