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Wow so much like life...
This movie so moved me because it is so much like life...If you do not believe in romance and what could have been...Then this is not the movie for you...

One of the Most Memorable Videos of our Time
Do you remember what it felt like to fall in love for the first time? Do you remember the pain when it ended, and years later seeing that person once again and the memories that came flowing back like water through a brook? You now have a good life filled with excitment and travel but you try to recapture that love. He has a wife - a family, but he,too, tries to recapture the past. The story, and particularly the ending, will touch your heart in a way you never thought possible. The theme song at the end of the video will also stay with you for years to come, so make sure the video plays until the very, very end.

If you've ever wondered "What if?", it will break your heart
This is a true romance. If you've ever wondered "what if??" this is it. It will break your heart when the high school sweethearts reunite and are torn apart again by obligation and circumstance. This is a first rate tear jerker. You are catapulted back in time to that ill fated romance we've all had. The tingle in the pit of your stomach when you see him again for the first time, wondering "How much have I changed and will he still love me?" The burst of energy when you finally give in and kiss again....it's all there. The chemistry is great between the lead characters, it was well acted and worth watching again and again. ... Read more

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Family Ties are Stronger than Anything
If you believe that a close family is important, then you will like this movie. All of the siblings in this movie come together in their childhood home because their father is dying. They all have their ups and downs, and there are many disagreements. Despite all of the sibling rivalries in the end their love for each other wins out. Anyone who watches this will be able to identify with a lot of the situations in this movie, which will make it that much more memorable. This is one movie that is worth getting

Made in Texas
If you were raised in Texas, you will really be able to appreciate this film. And if you come from a large family, these characters will look awfully familiar. This is one of my favorite films.

Clever and Original
This is an extremely funny movie. The 3 southern sisters are very realistic southern characters. Beau Bridges and Beverly D'Angelo are particularly brilliant. ... Read more

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Great until the end
Another teriffic performance from Sissy. The perfect role for her. As with several other of her movies, she has such a nice, warm relationship with children (The River, Coal Miner's Daughter. The inner strength she shows in dealing with her situation, the way she holds her own with her boss and the townspeople, is remarkable. Very nice little nude scene too! Only the ending was a disappointment, going from a truly heart warming story to a "Halloween" ending was all wrong. Still, very much worth seeing.

Raggedy Man: Starts Strong Finishes Weak
Sissy Spacek has made a career of playing the rural disadvantaged woman in so many films that to watch her places the viewer in a comfortable cinematic chair from which to watch her battle entrenched odds. In RAGGEDY MAN, Sissy is Nita, a World War II wife whose husband has mysteriously left her and her two young boys to an uncertain economic fate. Nita is a telephone operator who plugs into war news on a daily basis and thus incorporates the frequent death notices of local soldiers into her already fractured life. She is pretty,lonely, overworked, and underpaid. And to a pair of rednecked brothers, she is clearly undersexed as well. Nita wants nothing to do with them or with any man either until a handsome sailor Teddy (Eric Roberts) strolls into her life and sparks fly long enough for the town gossips' tongues to wag. Teddy is welcomed into Nita's life as a reminder that passion is not extinguished within her. Her two boys bond immediately to Teddy. Overseeing all this is the mysterious scarred Raggedy Man, a local oddball who performs chores and seems to stare at Nita and the enfolding drama within her house. The major problemof RAGGEDY MAN is that director Jack Fisk fails to integrate the trio of Nita, Teddy, and the Raggedy Man. If the focus was to be on the strains of life for a single woman in the South of the World War II era, then the movie should have stayed on topic. And for most of the film, it does, and the viewer learns to care for Nita and her boys as they decide how and to what extent Teddy can fit in. Yet this scarred stranger intrudes too often to dilute the viewers' interest. Further, there is no interaction between Teddy and him. The ending tries vainly to justify the Raggedy Man's appearance at convenient times with no one able to recognize him or guess his identity until a surprise ending of violence. By this time, sailor Teddy is long gone and RAGGEDY MAN concludes in an uneasy stasis of diverted audience identification. RAGGEDY MAN had the potential to be a truly captivating exploration of how some people unexpectedly reach out to like minded souls only to find that society can be a destructive wild card factor, but in this case, the attempt to introduce an element of mystery was incompatible with stark human drama.

A Slice of Life
This quiet and gentle film is proof that sometimes less is more. Sissy Spacek is terrific as a young mother of two boys struggling to survive in rural Texas during WWII. Director Jack Fisk takes a slow and life like approach that showcases Spacek at her very best. Add to this film a restrained score by Jerry Goldsmith that perfectly frames life in a small rural town during the 40's and you have a very special film.

The film opens in Edna, Texas in 1940 where Nita (Spacek), her newborn baby boy in her arms, sees husband Sam Shepard having a good time in a bar, with someone else. Four years later she is divorced and scratching out a living as a telephone switchboard operator in Gregory, Texas where her job has apparently been frozen. Henry Thomas and Carey Thomas Jr. are both amazingly good as her two boys. Both Nita and her boys are lonely, but Nita is not lonely enough to give in to the small minded Triplett brothers, excellently played by William Sanderson and Tracey Walker.

Her life changes when a sailor passing through this backwoods town takes a real liking to her boys and her, and Nita begins to have feelings for him as well. Eric Roberts gives an affecting performance as Teddy, who loves Spacek and takes her boys to see their first John Wayne picture show. But there is a mean spirited atmosphere of jealousy in the town and someone besides the Triplett brothers has been keeping watch over these proceedings; a mysterious disfigured hobo known throughout the town as the Raggedy Man.

When Teddy finally has to leave there are some truly moving scenes between he and Nita, and he and the boys. He says he will look her up when and if he returns and since director Fisk has taken the time to show a real love develop, we know he will. But upon his leaving she finally finds out the truth about her work status and makes plans to leave for San Antonio. The Triplett brother's lust will manifest itself in violence before she leaves. But there may be a flaw in their attempt, as they have forgotten about, the Raggedy Man.

This is a small wonderful film with a performance by Spacek that is one of her best. It is quiet and gentle, but not soon forgotten. This is a very little known and neglegted treasure you really have to own.

Badlands
Let me start off by saying that Sissy Spacek is my favorite actress of all time. I haven't watched all of her movies but after seeing Badlands, I was blown away by her acting. After following up on her other movies, such as Carrie, I saw her talent and she stands out like no other actress does, I love her accent!

Flawless acting and direction
I fell in love with Eric Roberts after seeing this film. His portrayal of the jilted sailor who finds a brief ray of happiness with Sissy Spacek was teriffic - all the energy and optimism of young love shone through in his performance. If he had continued to make movies this good, he would have been a huge star.

Sissy Spacek gives her usual flawless performance, creating a rich, three dimensional character. The kids in this film are absolutely wonderful.

Worth getting, worth watching, and it still holds up after all these years. ... Read more

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Family entertaimnt at its best. Father/daughter story.
12 yr.old girl discovers hr belove father has a character flaw and realizing hr mom and dad are on different wave-lenths, decides to become her father's guardian angel. True story of Adela Rogers St. John and her father, famed defense lawyer Earl Rogers, who was the model for Perry Mason. Takes place in 1919. Great production values. ... Read more