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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780800127183 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0800127188 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Release Date: April 07, 1998 Running Time: 135 minutes Sales Rank: 19338 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1992
Amazon.com essential video: An intelligent and potent drama about taking life's second chances when they come, Passion Fish finds director John Sayles (Matewan, Lone Star) once again providing a strong cast of actors with a smart, literate screenplay to produce an entertaining and thought-provoking film. Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves, Grand Canyon) plays a soap-opera actress paralyzed in a car accident, who returns to the small town on the Louisiana bayou where she grew up to hide. But the hiring of a physical therapist with a tortured past (Alfre Woodard), and the sometimes antagonistic bond formed between them, allows the woman to try and rehabilitate herself and seize the opportunities that life still has to offer. With some great traditional Cajun music and the picturesque bayou as a backdrop, Passion Fish is an engaging yarn not to be missed. --Robert Lane
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Rating: - Flawed beauty
This is a beautifully filmed, splendidly acted, and intelligently written film, well worth watching. At the same time, the movie is overly long and the script contains more than a bit of soap opera. Most objectionable, to this viewer, was the low level of moral sensitivity exhibited by Sayles. There seems to be nothing higher in life than sex, even when it's with someone else's husband. Christianity is sneered at in the script, and there is blasphemy along with the much-used "f" word. At the end, one has the feeling that the two women lead characters will reach no higher goal in life than jumping ... Read More
Rating: - Sayles Bait
I love John Sayles's movies--and he's an excellent short story writer, too. I hadn't gotten around to watching PASSION FISH, though, until very recently. It's everything I'd come to expect in a Sayles film: compelling dialogue, fascinating characters (all of them, even the bit-players who were only in one or two scenes), great soundtrack, smart casting, and wise, subtle humor.
The story is basically about two guarded, emotionally damaged women who find strength in each other as their friendship evolves.
However, there were a few little errors that irritated me, particularly ... Read More
Rating: - PASSION FISH
THis is a movie rich. The acting is superb. No action but pleny of really good story. I have watched Passion Fish many times both in VHS and now in DVD. It never grows old.
Rating: - Passion Fish
I borrowed this movie along with four or five others from the local library and I kept putting it off and eventually considered simply returning it without even watching it, thinking that it looked kind of sappy and would be a bore to watch. I decided to give it a try the night--very late in the night, I should say--before it was due, and boy was I ever wrong. This is one of the most moving and evocative movies that I've watched in a while, and could not help but watch it through to the end despite the late hour. This is one of the few times when I can say that I feel that a movie was perfectly cast. ... Read More
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There has not been a John Sayles movie made that I did not think superb, and this one is no exception. It was a wonderful film. Alfre Woodward (now of "Desperate Housewives") had much the better part, more stretch than Mary McDonnell ("Dances With Wolves"). Good Louisiana, creole, bayou, photography. Smaller characters were very well drawn too. And the dialogue - sharp.
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