With three great performances from three great women - Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek and Jessica Lange - and good work behind the camera, you'd think this story of three unsettled sisters reuniting in North Carolina would be gold. But it isn't. Beth Henley's adaptation of her own play is like swimming through sandpaper. Hysteria runs high through this family, and suicide. You want to beat them all with a broom.
Well directed and edited (Anne Goursaud), beautifully shot (Dante Spinotti), great property - Harper House, Southport - at this point still in private hands (now open to the public).
Not the way to start a New Year.
Beresford made two William Boyds, A Good Man in Africa and Mister Johnson, as well as Driving Miss Daisy.
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