Product Details

• Actors: Lee Remick, Scott Wilson, Richard Marcus, Priscilla Lopez, Kevin Conway
• Directors: Glenn Jordan
• Writers: James Lee Barrett
• Producers: Dennis R. Murphy, Paul Rubell
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Lions Gate
• VHS Release Date: September 19, 1991
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302139783
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,978 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars petershelley is wrong about Remick's performance, April 9, 2005

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Shannon Reardon (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jesse [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Dry and humorless"? Kind of like your review. While I would agree that Jesse is not the best movie ever filmed, or the best Lee Remick movie ever filmed (and I notice you have reviewed several of her movies on imdb.com, and I thank you as I have not seen them), Remick is neither dry nor humorless. There were times that her delivery of certain lines, particularly when Jesse was on the stand, that I smiled and laughed at along with the courtroom audience. "Small emotional range"??? Remick never acted poorly in any movie she was in and if anything, she elevated them with her immense acting ability. I would scoff at "Jesse" too and probably would not have even watched it all if it wasn't for Lee Remick's talents or her performance. The movie is not the greatest and you are right, petershelley, when you call out some of the dialogue of the townspeople and the stereotypes of them. You ponder whether it was director Glenn Jordan who failed the film, or Remick and vice versa. I would assert the former if I were to "lay blame." I'd want Remick (as Jesse) as my nurse/lifesaver. I think both as a medical professional and as a human being, Jesse served her fellow citizens just fine and as a witness on the stand, though you say she was overly pious, helped her own cause and showed dignity and class. Remick made Jesse likeable and heroic. Even though I thought Jesse overstepped her bounds at times as a nurse (and this is a real life story), her heart was in the right place and she was acquitted because Butler, the bureaucrat, entrapped her. She, in my mind, was techincally guilty of wrongdoing, but if you or I was in a life or death situation, what would we do? Remick played her very well and I enjoyed when Jesse stood up to her ridiculous husband played by Scott Wilson, who was completely self-centered and immature, not to mention inconsiderate. Context is everything as this was set in 1965 and women still were expected to be in the kitchen cooking their husbands' suppers every night. Anyhow, this is not a great movie, but any movie with Lee Remick automatically elevates it and makes it worth watching.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I knew the Lady, October 24, 2002

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Larry Lee (Hebron North Dakota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jesse [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I knew the lady, and she was anything dry and humorless,the movie was well written but did not cover the whole story of her, she was responsiable for saving many lives including mine. back then she was all we had for medical help in case of sickness or accident, the closest Doctor was 180 miles away, Just for the record she was a Retired Army Nurse who got her experiance during the Korea in a MASH Unit. Working in a mine makes a mananything but over sensitive, Like I said earlier, the story is good, but so much was left out, so before you judge the person you ought to know her,

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jesse's real name was "Patsy", May 15, 2008

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W. Murphy "Goat Whisperer" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jesse [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Jesse whose real first name was Patsy was my great aunt and was raised with my father by my grandmother since they were of similar age. They lived in a number of mining towns; I believe my father went to 27 different schools to finally finish High School in Leadville, Colorado. At one point, they lived so remotely in Montana; it could only be reached by river raft. As a child, my grandmother was the informal town doctor, mortician and one of the first certified woman postmaster's in the United States in a small mining town in northern Nevada. These women to include my great-grandmother were the last of great pioneering woman who did what was necessary for survival. They were from another era, people today cannot understand but they had strength, honor and integrity. These are admirable qualities rarely seen in our culture today. You have to meet the person to know what the movie really was about. Well, as they used to say when I was a child, I gotta go see a man about a horse...