Violets Are Blue (1986)
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50% of critics liked it
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37% of users liked it
(203 ratings)
This small-town romance may be trying to ride the coattails of the Big Chill that also featured Kevin Kline. Kline plays Henry here, and when the film opens he and his love Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek, wife of director Jack Fisk), are sitting together planning the future they will have. She will be… More This small-town romance may be trying to ride the coattails of the Big Chill that also featured Kevin Kline. Kline plays Henry here, and when the film opens he and his love Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek, wife of director Jack Fisk), are sitting together planning the future they will have. She will be a flight attendant and he will get a college degree. Yet when they part, so does their destiny. By a quirk of fate, Gussie starts taking photos for an in-flight magazine and ends up an ace photographer while Henry has stayed in their small town to run the newspaper after his dad died. When Gussie comes back for a vacation 15 years later the two old sweethearts find that the embers that burned so low over the last many years are heating up again. No one in the town is unaware of what is going on, and Gussie is in for a lecture from her dad while Henry hears it like it is from his wife. But will that change the course of their relationship? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Critic Reviews
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James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette
Disappointing romantic muddle
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Addresses the complex choices many people have to make as they come face to face with the dreams of their youth and the realities of middle-age.
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Cast
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Sissy Spacek
as Gussie Sawyer
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Kevin Kline
as Henry Squires
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Bonnie Bedelia
as Ruth Squires
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Jim Standiford
as Addy Squires
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Augusta Dabney
as Ethel Sawyer
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Kate McGregor-Stewart
as Sara Mae
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Adrian Sparks
as George
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Annalee Jefferies
as Sally
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John Kellogg
as Ralph Sawyer
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Michael Mack
as Ben
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Megan Malloly
as Kathleen
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Erin Malooly
as Erin
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Douglas Roberts
as Lloyd Lynch
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Brian Sargis
as Squid
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Keith Sargis
as Bryant
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Mike Starr
as Toney
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Kathleen Fannon
as Girl's Mother
- Pat McCorkle
