Jessica Lange was nominated for an Academy Award in 1983 for her tour de force performance as actress Frances Farmer, who challenged conventional Hollywood wisdom, but paid the price for her diverse perspective (she lost out to Meryl Streep for SOPHIE’S CHOICE, but consoled herself with the Best Supporting Actress Oscar that year for TOOTSIE as Julie, whom Dustin Hoffman, posing as a woman, falls in love with (that said, I did too!)
Also starring the late Sam Shepard, famed playwright (FOOL FOR LOVE, TRUE WEST, as well as appearing as Chuck Yeager in Philip Kaufman’s THE RIGHT STUFF (1983), the film (based on Farmer’s own powerful biography ‘Will There Really Be A Morning?’, hits home with Farmer’s struggles and her eventual sentence in a mental institution thanks to her troubled relationship with her mother (Kim Stanley).
Directed by Graeme Clifford (supervising film editor on films like CONVOY (1978)