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Shy People (1987)

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Reviews Counted: 8

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Rotten:3

Average Rating: 6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: A sophisticated New York journalist, assigned to write an article on her family tree, takes her sullen teenage daughter in tow and heads down to the Louisiana Bayou to meet some of her relatives. But when they arrive in the primitive... A sophisticated New York journalist, assigned to write an article on her family tree, takes her sullen teenage daughter in tow and heads down to the Louisiana Bayou to meet some of her relatives. But when they arrive in the primitive swampland, she discovers a strange and sometimes dangerous world, different from any she's ever known -- and she's not sure she can even trust her own family to help her. [More]

Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Don Swayze

Starring: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Don Swayze, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin, Mare Winningham

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky

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Sep 13, 1989

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Barbara Hershey is extraordinary.

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A film full of atomsphere so thick that it catches you up in it's spell.

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