Word: spacek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gonna: Kathleen Turner, Peggy Sue Got Married. It was an okay performance in a terrible movie, but Sissy Spacek has already won, Marlee Matlin has a funny name, and nobody wants to hear Jane Fonda give a speech about her new political work-out video, Sandinista's Aerobicising Against Apartheid...
Oughta: Sissy Spacek, Crimes of the Heart. She was real good in this so-so movies. I toast that little loony with a glass of lipsmackin' lemonade...
Gonna: Tess Harper, Crimes of the Heart. This performance sucked the root. But they'll give it to Harper because it had just the sort of nutty Southern Belle Phoniness the Academy gobbles up...as opposed to Spacek's genuine Southern nuttiness, peanuts down the Coke bottle etc., which was acting, not caricature...
...sisters that too often expresses itself in shrill hectoring. Jessica Lange is Meg, the singer, free spirit and hot number, who has come home to suture the family wounds and relive an affair with her old beau Doc Porter (nicely played by Lange's real beau Sam Shepard). Sissy Spacek is Babe, under arrest for the attempted murder of her husband, who had discovered her frolicking with a black teenager. Spacek comes off best, perhaps because she gets to flash her radiant smile after a plethora of roles that forced her to bear down and save the world...
...emotionally more subtle matter: an archetypally vexatious mother-daughter relationship. In adapting play to screen, Norman and Director Tom Moore have been somewhat undone by their new medium's imperatives. The realism of camera close-ups turns probability into utter implausibility. And the casting of Anne Bancroft and Sissy Spacek, who cannot help projecting intelligence and the will to prevail, is inimical to the story's cause. Still, the painful honesty of the play's psychological observations survives and remains worthy of attention...