Violets Are Blue... (1986)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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This small-town romance may be trying to ride the coattails of the Big Chill that also featured Kevin Kline. Kline plays Henry here, and when the film opens he and his love Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek, wife of director Jack Fisk), are sitting together planning the future they will have. She will be a flight attendant and he will get a college degree. Yet when they part, so does their destiny. By a quirk of fate, Gussie starts taking photos for an in-flight magazine and ends up an ace
Apr 11, 1986 Wide
Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Cast
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Sissy Spacek
Gussie Sawyer -
Kevin Kline
Henry Squires -
Bonnie Bedelia
Ruth Squires -
Jim Standiford
Addy Squires -
Augusta Dabney
Ethel Sawyer -
Kate McGregor-Stewart
Sara Mae -
Adrian Sparks
George -
Annalee Jefferies
Sally -
John Kellogg
Ralph Sawyer -
Michael Mack
Ben -
Megan Malloly
Kathleen -
Erin Malooly
Erin -
Douglas Roberts
Lloyd Lynch -
Brian Sargis
Squid -
Keith Sargis
Bryant -
Mike Starr
Toney -
Kathleen Fannon
Girl's Mother -
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Disappointing romantic muddle
Addresses the complex choices many people have to make as they come face to face with the dreams of their youth and the realities of middle-age.
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