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1983
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1.5
Its quite an accomplishment for Jessica Lange and its too bad a better film didnt come of it.
Variety
1.5
Farmer, as scripted here and played by Lange, unsurprisingly remains something of a cypher.
Time Out
4.5
Jessica Langes outstanding performance offers an intriguing portrait of Frances Farmer, an actress who marched to the beat of her own drummer and paid ..
Spirituality And Practice
2.0
This relentlessly depressing film biography boasts a moving performance by Jessica Lange.
Tv Guide
4.5
Jessica Lange brings so much energy and personal involvement to her portrayal of Frances Farmer that you cant help but feel sorry for her; nothing els ..
Chicago Reader
4.5
MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, THE Australian western with all the classic cliches and stale situations, wrapped into a pretty and energetic package by directo ..
Cs Monitor
3.5
Jessica Lange and Kim Stanley give superb performances as the troubled actress Frances Farmer and her domineering mother, compensating for the shapele ..
Emanuellevy
4.5
Focusing a little too heavily on the melodramatic aspects of the catresss life, Fances is nonetheless superior TV movie fodder.
Film 4
4.5
With a superb lead performance from Jessica Lange, this is a horror story based on life, not nightmare.
People
3.2
Lange is wonderful, and provides a searing, tremendous reason to see a film that would otherwise collapse under even a moment of analytical pressure.
Nicks Flick Picks
4.4
Jessica Lange plays Frances Farmer in a performance that is so driven, that contains so many different facets of a complex personality, that we feel s ..
Google
3.5
All the more credit to Lange that shes able to extract something so titanically powerful from material so limiting.
Reviews Antagony Ecstasy
1.5
There 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 ..
Associated Press
4.5
Regardless of the cinematic flaws, the story of Frances Farmer is so powerful that the film still has a harrowing impact.
Los Angeles Free Press
4.5
Jessica Lange, blonde, nervy, witty, with great huge restless hands, captures, without self pity, the haunting quality of the eternal misfit.
Vogue
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