Raggedy Man
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Movie Reviews of Raggedy Man
Movie Review: Raggedy Man
Summary: 5 Stars
Raggedy Man was Ordered for my wife she loves the movie ...recieved the item in good time ..no prob at all . Would buy again ..
Neal & Brenda
Movie Review: Really Good Forgotten Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I just watched Raggedy Man for the first time in probably 20 years. The movie still holds up as the people I watched it with, who have verying tastes all thought it was a really good movie. The consensus was also that nobody had ever heard of it. This movie stars a very young Sissy Spacek and Eric Roberts and they do a great job. It also has some very recognizable character actors filling out the cast and Sam Shepard in a pivotal role. This movie takes place during World War II on the home front. Most of the men are old or older men and men who couldn't make it into the military for one reason or another. Sissy Spacek is a divorced mother of two wonderful little boys, one played by Henry Thomas of E.T. and Gangs of New York fame. She works as the town switchboard and is stuck in a dead end job trying to raise her two boys on her own. She is seen as a "dee-vor-say" which back in that time meant that she was probably "loose". The towns folk are mostly good people but judgemental and a bunch of nosey gossips. There are also a couple of ex-convict brothers who are redneck jerks who have their eyes set on Sissy's character. Eric Roberts is a young sailor on leave for 4 days before he ships out who meets Spacek and her two boys and hits it off with them much to the scorn of the prudes and gossips in the town.
This movie is a sweet and tender movie but it does have some violent content that is not for everybody but nothing graphic such as is todays standard. The movie is a forgotten and until recently out of print gem. Check it out.
Movie Review: A Neglected Gem
Summary: 4 Stars
One of Sissy's finest, yet most underrated performances, with her husband (Fisk) directing her in a gripping and suspenseful screenplay by William Wittliff (*Perfect Storm* and *Legends of the Fall*). This is Fisk's first as director, but as a former art director, it is beautiful in its attention to detail, and he presents his wife with the care that only a director in love with his leading lady can do. Sissy plays a telephone operator in a small Texas town during World War II, raising her two boys and keeping to herself. While fending off the frightening attentions of a couple of the local yokels, she causes a great deal of consternation by taking up with a sailor passing through. He is handsome and loving, and bonds with her children, but the story takes many turns before its shattering conclusion. A neglected gem, it is a magnificent showcase for Sissy's talent.Movie Review: I'm not quite sure what kind of movie this is trying to be...
Summary: 3 Stars
`Raggedy Man' is a small film in approach and scope, yet there are moments that leave you with a lot to chew on so-to-speak. The problem I have with the film is that it doesn't seem to know what kind of film to really wants to be. It seems to throw everything at you, leaving you to discern for yourself how you want to take it. In parts it works very well, but together it tends to be rather uneven and a little preposterous.
The ending, it just irks me.
The film tells of Nita Longley, a middle aged mother of two living in rural Texas during World War II. Divorced from her philandering husband and working as a telephone operator, Nita is confined by the life she was dealt and struggles to find some sort of balance between living and dying in this small town. She's accosted by two creepy men and mistreated by her selfish boss, and coupling this with the raising of her two young boys is wearing on Nita. Then she meets Teddy, a young sailor who stumbles into her life in the middle of a storm. Her sons immediately grow attached to Teddy, who proves to be a father figure they've needed, and Nita too finds herself falling for this young man. News travels fast and the town is up in arms over Nita's apparent lifestyle choices, but in the end everything Nita does is for the benefit of her sons.
As a love story this movie works rather nicely, and I found myself intrigued by the relationship blossoming between Nita and Teddy. As a suspense driven thriller though, the film fails to really impress. I think maybe because it tries too hard in such a short time period. It shifts gears so drastically so suddenly, and this makes the final few minutes of the film feel out of place.
It becomes `Halloween'.
The acting is a saving grace for the lack of direction in the script, which is astonishing especially on the part of Spacek who has to juggle two films so-to-speak. She does so very well, capturing the naivety and graceful innocence of a romantic heroine as well as the fear and natural mothering instincts of a terrified victim. Eric Roberts shocked me, delivering a charming and delightful performance. William Sanderson and Tracy Walter deliver their performances with the right amount of edge to create believable villains.
Sam Shepard has a small role, and the most preposterous at that, and it's not like you can call what he does acting so I'll refrain from comment.
It has all the workings of a good film but winds up becoming nothing more than a halfway decent one. It has its moments and really the whole first half or so is really good, but the ending is just too over-the-top for me; and the final revelation, on the porch, is just ridiculous in my opinion. Spacek is stunning, that much is very true, but the film itself is not.
Movie Review: Great 80s movie in made-for-tv version. Universal screws up again.
Summary: 1 Stars
I got to see the second half of this movie on one of those free weekends when HBO tried to get people to subscribe by giving regular cable people access. I thought it was quite a moving tale of a mother raising 2 children in Texas. I kept looking for it to reappear somewhere, but never did. So I was excited to see that it came to DVD, but unfortunately it's being released by Universal (probably the worst in terms of quality of the disc, extras & quality of transfer) of the majors for DVD releases. No surprise then that this one misses the boat too. This dvd presents the edited (PG) for HBO (full screen), not an anamorphic (1.85) presentation of the original (rated R) theatrical release, which is a shame for a film that won 2 golden globes.
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