Raggedy Man
Raggedy Man

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- 67/100 based on 1,769 votes
  • Released: 1981
  • Runtime: 94 mins
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  • Studio: Universal Pictures
  • Genres: Drama

In 1944, divorcee Nita Longley has been brought into the small town of Gregory, Texas by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to be at the switchboard day and night. Her boss Mr. Rigby tells her that the job would only be a stepping-stone to a more-lucrative job with regular working hours, but then he tells her that the war has frozen her position. Now Nita feels trapped, living in the telephone-switchboard office building with h... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Raggedy Man:

Sissy Spacek
Eric Roberts
Sam Shepard
William Sanderson
Tracey Walter
R.G. Armstrong

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In 1944, divorcee Nita Longley has been brought into the small town of Gregory, Texas by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to be at the switchboard day and night. Her boss Mr. Rigby tells her that the job would only be a stepping-stone to a more-lucrative job with regular working hours, but then he tells her that the war has frozen her position. Now Nita feels trapped, living in the telephone-switchboard office building with her two songs, adolescent Harry and infant Henry. Her divorcee status makes many of the townsfolk, especially the men, view her with contempt or She was originally told by her boss Mr. Rigby that this job would only be a stepping-stone to a more lucrative job with regular working hours, which Mr. Rigby seems to be reneging on since he has now told her that her position is frozen due to the war. As such, Nita feels trapped by this situation. Nita lives in the telephone switchboard office building with her two sons, adolescent Harry and infant Henry. Because of her marital status, many of the townsfolk, especially the men, scorn her as a loose woman. One evening, Teddy Roebuck, a sailor on a four-day furlough who is hitchhiking back to his home in Ardmore, Oklahoma, stops by to make a telephone call. When he learns that the reason for his trip home no longer exists, Teddy decides to stay in Gregory instead and befriends Nita and her boys; eventually Nita and Teddy fall in love. The stranger's arrival annoys locals Calvin and Arnold, who have been pursuing Nita, who has rebuffed their advances. The town's unidentified disfigured man, whom Nita fears, may ultimately provide her with the ability to move on with her life.

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Spirituality and Practice - 9/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatRaggedy Man profiles a lonely woman desperately trying to make it on her own.
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Roger EbertThe movie was made with a lot of love and startingly fresh memories of the early 1940s, and reminds us once again that Spacek is a treasure.
The New Yorker - 8/10 by Pauline KaelSpacek herself is given free rein, and turns in all that you'd expect and more, including a number of marvelous little insights from her own Texas childhood. Something as slight as this could never have got off the ground without her, but she makes you glad it did.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 6/10 by Emanuel LevyWorth seeing for Sissy Spacek's turn, but the film is incoherent, borrowing elements from To Kill a Mockingbird (Sam Shepard's strange) character and the notion of a sexually harassed woman trapped in her own home, just like Wait Until Dark.
Newsweek - 6/10 by David AnsenRaggedy Man is something like a country-and-western ballad that relates a supposedly sad, melodramatic story but whose simple, repetitive, upbeat rhythms effectively deny the awfulness of the events being sung about.
User Review - 10/10 by Donna DI first saw this movie when I was 11 years old, and was totally blown away. It is based in the 1940's around the time of WWII. Spacek plays the part of the town's telephone operator who works out of her home. She is single (her husband was supposedly killed in the war) and has to put up with a lot of crap from townspeople and strangers alike. One night, two strangers come calling, and all hell breaks loose.
User Review - 10/10 by Nandi CA divorced mom of two kids in a small town Texas during WW2 is a telephone operator who hooks up with Eric Roberts on leave from the war. They share an easy bond and the kids like him, but danger still lurks.
User Review - 10/10 by teri aOne womans story about raising her two sons alone by being a telephone operator. and her husband returns from the war to protect her nd his two little boys..
User Review - 10/10 by wendy meric roberst and sissy spacek are super-charged in this one
User Review - 10/10 by Daniel Ba sleeper that illustrates spacek's talent and how eric roberts might have been bigger than julia. Sam shepard appears...sort of.

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