Chattahoochee

Chattahoochee (1989)

  • 17% of critics liked it
    (6 reviews)

  • 51% of users liked it
    (1,496 ratings)

Since Chattahoochee is a story based on true events, it may seem absurd to suggest that the actual events of Chattahoochee are pirated from other true-life tales like Gideon's Trumpet. But it certainly seems as if true stories are just as derivative as any fictional narrative coming out of… More

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Drama
In Theaters
Jun 1, 1989 Wide
HBO Video

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  • Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile

    This fact based story from the mid 50s American penal system is a sobering and dramatic reminder of how many states treated mentally ill patients, criminal or otherwise

  • Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)

    Off the beaten track, but too bleak to merit the detour.

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  • Cindy I


    Hard as hell to sit through, but SO worth it if you do. Gary Oldman plays a Korean War veteran who cracks up and is sent to an asylum/prison camp that makes the farm in Cool Hand Luke look like Disneyland. Supposedly based on a true story about a place in Louisiana. Oldman is… More

  • Lafe F


    Based on a true story, a Korean war vet named Emmett Folley (played by Gary Oldman) can't adjust to life back home and has a crisis with the law. He is sent to Chattahoochee, an outhouse of an institution where the state of Florida locks the mentally ill and the criminals… More

  • Anthony V


    Great performances by Oldman, Hopper, Reed and McDormand add to the intriguing true story of one patient's battle to reform a mental institution. Nice direction and realistic throughout.

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