Frances Farmer, a precocious Seattle teenager, takes unpopular social and political positions, to the mixed reactions of her parents. Frances becomes an actress and has some strong success in New York, but her refusal to bend her convictions and her outspoken (but sometimes naive) political expressiveness cause her difficulties, especially after she accepts a Hollywood contract. Torn between new-found success and intense feelings that she does not deserve the riches and fame ... (Full plot summary below)
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Frances Farmer, a precocious Seattle teenager, takes unpopular social and political positions, to the mixed reactions of her parents. Frances becomes an actress and has some strong success in New York, but her refusal to bend her convictions and her outspoken (but sometimes naive) political expressiveness cause her difficulties, especially after she accepts a Hollywood contract. Torn between new-found success and intense feelings that she does not deserve the riches and fame she gains from the phoniness of Hollywood, Frances butts heads with studio executives and with her own mother, who revels in Frances's fame but provides Frances no emotional support. When drunken fights and arrests derail her career, Frances is sent to a psychiatric hospital with the acquiescence of her mother. What follows is a nightmare of poor treatment and psychological trauma, augmented by the increasing determination of Frances's mother to control her daughter's life.
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| Nolan's Pop Culture ReviewMichael A. SmithIn one year (along with "Tootsie") Lange went from joke to respect. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJessica Lange plays Frances Farmer in a performance that is so driven, that contains so many different facets of a complex personality, that we feel she has an intuitive understanding of this tragic woman. |
| VarietyVariety StaffIt's quite an accomplishment for Jessica Lange and it's too bad a better film didn't come of it. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrJessica Lange brings so much energy and personal involvement to her portrayal of Frances Farmer that you can't help but feel sorry for her; nothing else in the film remotely matches her talent and dedication. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonAll the more credit to Lange that she's able to extract something so titanically powerful from material so limiting. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyIt contains too many show-down scenes, too much raw material that hasn't been refined, and more brutality than either the movie or the audience can make dramatic sense of. Yet it also contains a magnificent performance by Jessica Lange in the title role. Here is a performance so unfaltering, so tough, so intelligent and so humane that it seems as if Miss Lange is just now, at long last, making her motion picture debut. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatJessica Lange's outstanding performance offers an intriguing portrait of Frances Farmer, an actress who marched to the beat of her own drummer and paid the price. |
| Associated PressBob ThomasThere was material for a profound human tragedy in her life, but three writers were unable to uncover it. The result is an almost ludicrous parody of the Old Hollywood. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullUnfortunately though the story glosses over some of the big details in Farmer's life. |
| Time OutVerina GlaessnerFarmer, as scripted here and played by Lange, unsurprisingly remains something of a cypher. |
