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Crimes of the Heart is a 1986 American black comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford from a screenplay written by Beth Henley adapted from her Pulitzer Prize -winning 1979 play of the same name. It stars Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, and Hurd Hatfield.
Jan 23, 1987 · Crimes of the Heart: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard. Three southern sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.
- (4.5K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Bruce Beresford
- 1987-01-23
"Crimes of the Heart" is that most delicate of undertakings: a comedy about serious matters. It exists somewhere between parody and melodrama, between the tragic and the goofy.
Crimes of the Heart is a play by American playwright Beth Henley. It is set in Hazlehurst, Mississippi in the mid-20th century. The play won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. In 1986, the play was novelized and released as a book, written by Claudia Reilly.
- Beth Henley
- 1982
Meg (Jessica Lange), Lenny (Diane Keaton) and Babe Magrath (Sissy Spacek) aren't exactly mirror images of one another, as becomes clear through their dealings with Old Granddaddy (Hurd Hatfield)....
- (22)
- Bruce Beresford
- PG-13
- Diane Keaton
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Three southern sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide. Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid.
