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Sibling Relationship | Mississippi River
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1987 | Sissy
Best Actress | 1986 | Sissy
Best Actress | 1986 | Sissy
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1987 | Sissy
Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1987 | Tess
Best Writing Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | 1987 | Beth
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1987
Box Office Collection 22,905,522 USD
Jessica Lange was pregnant during principal photography. Lange gave birth to her second child at age 36, a daughter Hannah Jane Shepard on 13th January 1986. The child's father is her then partner and co-star in this film, Sam Shepard.
The film's source Beth Henley stage-play "Crimes of the Heart" won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981.
Actors Sam Shepard and Jessica Lange since 1982 had been in a long-term relationship when the movie was made and released with the pairing lasting until 2009.
The film is cast with three leads who have all won Oscars in the Best Actress Academy Award category: Diane Keaton for Annie Hall (1977), Sissy Spacek for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and, Jessica Lange for Blue Sky (1994), with the latter's Best Actress Oscar won after this movie, but at the time that this movie was made and released, Lange had previously won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar Academy Award for Tootsie (1982), making this movie's three leads still all Academy Award Winners at the time the film was made and first released.
The original Broadway production of "Crimes of the Heart" by Beth Henley opened at the John Golden Theater in New York on 4th November 1981, after 13 previews starting on 23rd October the previous month, and ran for 535 performances, until the play closed on 13th February 1983. The play was nominated for four Tony Awards in 1982 including Best Play. Henley also wrote the screen play for this movie.
"Meg Magrath: Why'd you do it, Babe ? Why'd you put your head in the oven? Babe Magrath: I don't know... I'm having a bad day."
"Chick Boyle: Lenny! Yoo hoo, Lenny! Well this is just too awful. How I'm gonna continue to hold my head high in this community, I do not know. Did you get those pantyhose I asked you to? Lenny Magrath: They're in the sack. Chick Boyle: Now daddy has called twice already. He says we gotta get ourselves to town to help out with this thing with Babe before they change their simple minds. Lenny Magrath: I was sorta hopin' that Meg would call. I sent her a telegram about Babe. Chick Boyle: A telegram? Couldn't you just phone her up or something? Lenny Magrath: No, I couldn't because her phone was out of order. Chick Boyle: Out of order? Lenny Magrath: That's right. It was disconnected. I don't know... Chick Boyle: Now that sounds just like Meg. What all did you say to her in this telegram? Lenny Magrath: Well, I just told her to come on home. Chick Boyle: To come on home? Lenny, have you lost your only mind or what? Babe is gonna be incurring mighty negative publicity in this town and Meg's appearance isn't gonna help things out one bit. [indicating the pantyhose] Chick Boyle: These are awful snug. Did you get my right size? Lenny Magrath: [looking at the package] Well let's see, I think they're... size extra petite. Chick Boyle: Well they are scrimping on the nylon material. Anyway, Meg is known all over Copiah County as cheap Christmas trash. Why the whole town knows about her sordid dealings with Doc Porter and leaving him a cripple. Lenny Magrath: A cripple? He's got a limp, he barely has a limp!"
