Allan Rich, Anjelica Huston, Bart Burns
Jessica Lange gives a career performance in a role she was born to play: the talented and troubled Frances Farmer. Farmer's awful trajectory travels from bright Seattle girl to 1930s Hollywood starle...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 15, 2000
Stats: 126 reviews
This is a biopic about actress Frances Farmer. Although she was somewhat wild, I didn't think she was mentally ill.
Her story is notable because she was committed to a psychiatric institution by her mother because she didn't adhere to how her mother thought she should live.
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"frances" is a flick based on 1930s rebel actress frances farmer whose life and great potentiality were wasted horridly in mental institution. (raped, marred and lobotomized.)and "frances" is obviously the homage to the un-compromising individuality of frances farmer who lived be...( read more)
I thought that Jessica Lange really did a nice job of playing this role of the 1930's film star Frances Farmer, and all of her struggles with her family, Holleywood and her problems with mental illness.
This is a very difficult film to watch. Jessica Lange gives an incredible performance, as the long tortured actress Frances Farmer. She was nominated for an Oscar, for this role, and she certainly earned that nomination!
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