Frances

Frances

🎞️ Movie 140 min US
โ˜… 7.2 /10 1982

Her story is shocking, disturbing, compelling... and true.

Frances Farmer, a precocious Seattle teenager, takes unpopular social and political positions, to the mixed reactions of her parents. Frances becomes an actress and has some strong success in New York, but her refusal to bend her convictions and her outspoken (but sometimes naive) political expressiveness cause her difficulties, especially after she accepts a Hollywood contract. Torn between new-found success and intense feelings that she does not deserve the riches and fame she gains from the phoniness of Hollywood, Frances butts heads with studio executives and with her own mother, who revels in Frances's fame but provides Frances no emotional support. When drunken fights and arrests derail her career, Frances is sent to a psychiatric hospital with the acquiescence of her mother. What follows is a nightmare of poor treatment and psychological trauma, augmented by the increasing determination of Frances's mother to control her daughter's life.

Cast

Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange
Frances Farmer
Jonathan Banks
Jonathan Banks
Hitchhiker
Bonnie Bartlett
Bonnie Bartlett
Studio Stylist
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James Brodhead
Desk Sergeant
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Bart Burns
Ernest Farmer
Jane Jenkins
Jane Jenkins
Lady at Roosevelt Hotel
Jordan Charney
Jordan Charney
Harold Clurman
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Daniel Chodos
'No Escape' Director
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Rod Colbin
Sentencing Judge
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Donald Craig
Ralph Edwards
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John Barry
Composer
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László Kovács
Cinematographer

๐ŸŽฌ Videos

1982 Frances Official  Trailer 1  Brooksfilms, EMI Films
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Trailer
1982 Frances Official Trailer 1 Brooksfilms, EMI Films