Product Details

• Actors: Victoria Boothby, Lee Breuer, John Erdman, Lucy Sanger
• Directors: Lynne Tillman
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: First Run Features
• VHS Release Date: November 16, 1999
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630217998X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #430,733 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This Is One Of The Worst Movies Ever Made!, February 11, 2008

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M. George (Huxley, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Committed [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I was not pleased with this movie.It was jerky and a bad attempt at some sort of bizarre film noir.Everything about this movie was hideous.Too much time wasted on long scenes where the characters just sat or laid around.This movie told me nothing about Frances Farmer.This movie sucks big time!I regret the purchase of this movie. F------

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars huge disappointment, April 30, 2000

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Peter Shelley "petershelley" (Sydney, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Committed [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The first thing to note is that this film does not feature the real Frances Farmer as the video info states. Rather it is a biopic which makes the 1982 version with Jessica Lange look like a masterpiece. As Frances, Sheila McLaughlin is abysmal. In some scenes she's not even blonde! And she looks more like Piper Laurie than Frances Farmer, who was petite and luminously beautiful. The film offers no greater insight into Frances than the Lange version, in spite of the publicists claim, and the direction is heavy-handed and humourless. A lot of the time it reads like a bad play with hardly any character interaction or drama. There is even some pseudo-Bergman touches which are almost laughable. In spite of the scant Frances Farmer titles available on video, a viewing of Come and Get It or Toast of New York is preferable to this disaster.