Sordid Lives (2000)
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37% of critics liked it
(27 reviews) -
85% of users liked it
(3,298 ratings)
Writer-director Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (Ann Walker), and Sissy (Beth Grant) plan her… More Writer-director Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (Ann Walker), and Sissy (Beth Grant) plan her funeral -- an unenviable task, considering that they must carefully hide the deceased's affair with amputee G.W. (Beau Bridges) from his wife, the vindictive Noleta (Delta Burke). Meanwhile, the trio has to come to terms with two cases of sexual orientation: Latrelle's openly gay soap-opera star son Ty (Kirk Geiger), whose sexuality she continues to deny; and their only brother, Boy (Leslie Jordan), who's serving a sentence in a mental ward for his adamant belief that he is actually country & western legend Tammy Wynette. Playing an aspiring singer-songwriter, Olivia Newton-John turns up to provide the film with the occasional musical interlude. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi
- Directed By
- Del Shores
- Written By
- Del Shores
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 2000 Wide
- Studio
- Regent Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune
A train wreck you can't help but watch.
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Erin Meister, Boston Globe
While the film at times feels like a clumsily acted play, a surprising turn by Delta Burke carries the cast out of the doldrums of an often-strained plot line.
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
A movie that, while robustly performed ... has the strange effect of not so much opening up a play for the screen as closing it in.
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
If the film's flaws are large, so are its laughs.
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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
There's a genuine sweetness and familial affection that shines through Sordid Lives, and enough oddball humor to keep it mooo-ving along.
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Cast
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Newell Alexander
as Wardell Owens
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Rosemary Alexander
as Dr. Eve Bollinger
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Bonnie Bedelia
as Latrelle Williamson
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Beau Bridges
as G. W. Nethercott
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Earl Houston Bullock
as Ty Williamson
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Delta Burke
as Noleta Nethercott
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Kirk Geiger
as Ty Williamson
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Beth Grant
as Sissy Hickey
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Sarah Hunley
as Juanita Bartlett
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Leslie Jordan
as Brother Boy "Earl" Ingram
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Olivia Newton-John
as Bitsy Mae Harling
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Ann Walker
as LaVonda Dupree
- Terry Brannon
- Mitch Carter
- Mary Margaret Lewis
- Lorna Scott
