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...haunted as a dirt farmer caught in Dorothea Lange's lens. This is an unashamedly political film, spoiling to pin responsibility for the small, independent farmer's troubled times on the shrugging shoulders of the Reagan Administration. However majestic Jewell Ivy (Jessica Lange), her husband Gil (Sam Shepard) and their teen-age son Carlisle (Levi L. Knebel) may appear in profile against the Iowa sky, they are still vulnerable to being devoured in the tractor tracks of bureaucracy. And Gil, a defiant homesteader who can't take maybe for an answer, is in danger of losing...
Until a climax too calculated to stir the emotions, Screenwriter William D Wittliff and Director Richard Pearce navigate a careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...
Hedgecock, the indictment charged, illegally received $357,150 for his 1983 campaign from Currency Trader J. David Dominelli and his business partner-girlfriend, Nancy Hoover. The money was allegedly funneled into the campaign through a political consulting firm set up by Hedgecock's friend Tom Shepard. The four defendants face prison terms of up to eight years and $5,000 fines if they are convicted. With the election only five weeks away, a steadfast Hedgecock said to a crowd of,voters, "I'm on the job every day, seeking the best for my city...
...addict named Dopey (Gary Sinise), who looks and acts like a guerrilla refugee from the Twilight Zone. Sinise is one of the founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman and the film Places in the Heart...
Thomas R. Shepard...