Far North (1988) | Jessica Lange, Charles Durning

Far North (1988) | Jessica Lange, Charles Durning | Cute Film with great scenery

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Far North (1988)

	Far North (1988) Jessica Lange, Charles Durning MGM (Video & DVD), 1999 average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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Homesick?

I grew up in Duluth and can say this movie is like visiting my relatives. I bought the laser disk when it came out and still watch it from time to time, just before I head up north to visit! It's hilarious! Sam Shepard made a classic here, although Thunderheart is better, I highly recommend this movie to those who have strayed away from home for better careers since there isn't a thing to do in Duluth, except watch the tourists come and go.

Cute Film with great scenery

"Far North" is a cute film that I recommend any Jessica Lange fan to watch. Also, anyone who is a "Minnesota" fan will also enjoy the film. Filmed in and about Duluth, MN - this film does give you a "feel" of life in the Northland with a twist of humor and "dizzyness"! I think it is a great film! Cheers!

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A country road film!

In the beauty Minnesota landscapes, a little familiar accident in which a horse is involved will open the gate to explore the conceptual differences and points of view around what will be the final destiny of the guilty horse.

A very simple drama which deserved a major and most elaborated treatment. By this reason, the cast is wasted in innocuous dialogues and common places.

Blizzards Like Nothing I Have Ever Seen

Back in the late 60's I attended a college in Superior, Wisconsin. I was from Philadelphia, Pa and had never experienced the cold and long winters near the small city of Duluth, MN. I met hard drinking people there (there's nothing else to do), blond as Jessica Lange with Scandinavian or Polish accents, many of them. There were good people and bad. The men worked the port ships or the railroad yards. The blizzards were like nothing I have ever seen.

Charles Durning gets a fat man's star turn. Dunning has been thrown by his farm horse and wants the animal shot by his daughter, Jessica Lange. She protests, but agrees to shoot the animal. She's back from the Twin Cities where she works as a professional woman with one in the oven. The old man is in the hospital with wild delusions about the horse, his Alzheimer wife, and life on the farm and it's bitter cold. The drunken Uncle sidekick doesn't help either. Also, there's the younger daughter, unmarried with a teen daughter. The teen, blond as her sisters, is soon to get it on with as many young hockey players as possible.

This is Sam Sheppard's first directorial film with plenty of farce, which gets heavy handed, so the viewer never really gets a grip on the emotional lives of these crazy folks. Maybe that's it. Their lives by Lake Superior are so harsh, they cannot communicate a sensible thought. Nevertheless, Far North is a snapshot of an out of the way, beautiful place that will interest the curious.

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