Word: sufferin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just everything goes wrong for Farmer Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson) and his ever- sufferin' wife Mae (Sissy Spacek). The local river rises and floods their corn crop; an agricultural cartel tries to buy them out; the mean old banks threaten to foreclose on their land; and Mae gets her arm caught in a corn- picking machine. But Tom will not be swayed: "I ain't leavin'. 'Cept in a box." And so he joins the farm women of Places in the Heart and Country as Hollywood's nominee for the collective American hero...
...take the part wanders into aimlessness. Like the rest of the cast, Schmeiser is forced to superimpose grown-up sexuality on otherwise recognizable eight-year-old dialogue; what's more, between pelvic gyrations, she and cohort Kathy (Susannah Rabb) are saddled with lyrics like "Ah, nuts to all this sufferin'!...Gimme a Bufferin...