Blue Sky
- Original title
- Blue Sky
- Year
- 1994
- Running time
- 101 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Jessica Lange
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Powers Boothe
- Carrie Snodgress
- Amy Locane
- Mitchell Ryan
- Chris O'Donnell
- Timothy Scott
- Annie Ross
- Anna Klemp
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama. Family Relationships. Army. Nuclear Holocaust. 1960s
- Synopsis
- Jessica Lange stars as army wife Carly Marshall in Tony Richardson's last film, set in the early 1960s. Carly, a very beautiful woman, spices up the drabness of military life with the kind of promiscuity and exhibitionist behavior that has kept her husband, Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), from getting the promotions he's due while embarrassing her children, Glen (Chris O'Donnell) and Chris (Amy Locane), and keeping the family moving from one base to another as Carly wears out their welcome. After their most recent move to a base in Alabama, Carly starts flirting with base commander Gen. Vince Johnson (Powers Boothe) at the officers club and the general suddenly realizes that this would be the perfect time for Hank, an expert on atomic power, to go to Nevada to monitor some underground tests. Although he knows what's going on, Hank must obey, and Vince wastes no time in getting horizontal with Carly. When Hank uncovers evidence that civilians are being exposed to massive doses of radiation by leakage from the underground tests, everyone's life becomes even more complicated.
- Awards
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1994: Oscar: Best Actress (Jessica Lange)1994: Golden Globe: Best Actress Drama (Jessica Lange)1994: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Actress (Jessica Lange)1994: Screen Actors Guild (SAG): Nominated for Best Actress (Jessica Lange)1994: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nom. for Best Actress (Jessica Lange)1994: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Actress.
- Critics' reviews
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"The melodrama can be forgiven. What lingers in the mind is Richardson's hard-won, grown-up humanism."
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"Blue Sky is such an ungainly mixture of politics, emotion and nostalgia that it's a wonder the movie works at all - but it does."
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