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Jessica Lange gives a career performance in a role she was born to play: the talented and troubled Frances Farmer. Farmer’s awful trajectory travels from bright Seattle girl to 1930s Hollywood starlet to degraded (eventually lobotomized) mental patient. Lange, who has the blond, clean look of Farmer’s heyday, goes into these places with the fierce abandon of a tru believer. Her performance, the lush John Barry score, and the period re-creation are all worth applauding; almost everything else fails. Everyone except Farmer is grotesquly caricatured to fit the movie’s thesis, which is that if you are intelligent and nonconformist, the system will resolutely destroy you. (The medical establishment is evil incarnate.) This simple conclusion seems inadequate and disrespectful of Frances Farmer’s tragic problems. For a radiant glimpse of what the real Farmer had to offer, see Howard Hawks’s Come and Get It, which bristles with excitement over a new discovery. –Robert Horton
Frances was felicitous! You have to clinch this movie! A fantastic performance by Jessica Lange & Kim Stanley make Frances a “need to imagine” movie!
The astounding cast includes Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jonathan Banks. This cast just make Frances the more astonishing!









