Directed by Daniel Petrie • 1980 • United States
Starring Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth
Ellen Burstyn received an Academy Award nomination for her luminous performance in this powerful and provocative exploration of faith with a feminist edge. She plays Edna Mae McCauley, an ord...
Directed by Jack Fisk • 1981 • United States
Starring Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard
Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek, fresh from her Academy Award–winning turn in COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER) is a mother of two young sons struggling through life in a small Texas town during World War II. Shunned b...
Directed by Robert Altman • 1982 • United States
Starring Cher, Sandy Dennis, Karen Black
Twenty years after James Dean’s death, a group of former superfans in rural Texas—not far from where the movie star shot his final film, GIANT—gather in an old Woolworth’s five-and-dime store to celebrate h...
