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Passion Fish
starring: Brett Ardoin, Lenore Banks, Angela Bassett, Leo Burmester, Chuck Cain

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780800127183
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 0800127188
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: April 07, 1998
Running Time: 135 minutes
Sales Rank: 20811
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1992

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Amazon.com essential video:
An intelligent and potent drama about taking life's second chances when they come, Passion Fish finds director John Sayles (Matewan, Lone Star) once again providing a strong cast of actors with a smart, literate screenplay to produce an entertaining and thought-provoking film. Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves, Grand Canyon) plays a soap-opera actress paralyzed in a car accident, who returns to the small town on the Louisiana bayou where she grew up to hide. But the hiring of a physical therapist with a tortured past (Alfre Woodard), and the sometimes antagonistic bond formed between them, allows the woman to try and rehabilitate herself and seize the opportunities that life still has to offer. With some great traditional Cajun music and the picturesque bayou as a backdrop, Passion Fish is an engaging yarn not to be missed. --Robert Lane

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- One of the Enduring Classics of the 1990s
A paralyzed daytime soap actress leaves the Big Apples and returns to her family's now dilapidated Bayou manor and discovers the difficulty of keeping health care workers, finds one who was a coke head with her fast-running boyfriend in Chicago and, together they seek & find what little redemption can be found in this life.

The script by John Sayles is a masterpiece. All the acting is beyond first rate, Leo Burmester in particular. I have yet to see David Strathairn's prodigious skills on such abundant display as in this movie. Vondie Curtis-Hall is simply amazing as "Sugar" LeDoux with his twenty-one children.

Mary McDonnell and Alfie Woodard both perform at such a high level that their performances are beyond those typical of academy-award winners.

And the music! The wonderful zydeco is wonderful.

And there's a touching scene that involves a man dancing ... Read More

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- Flawed beauty
This is a beautifully filmed, splendidly acted, and intelligently written film, well worth watching. At the same time, the movie is overly long and the script contains more than a bit of soap opera. Most objectionable, to this viewer, was the low level of moral sensitivity exhibited by Sayles. There seems to be nothing higher in life than sex, even when it's with someone else's husband. Christianity is sneered at in the script, and there is blasphemy along with the much-used "f" word. At the end, one has the feeling that the two women lead characters will reach no higher goal in life than jumping in the sack with assorted men. Just the message this society needs!

Rating:

- Sayles Bait
I love John Sayles's movies--and he's an excellent short story writer, too. I hadn't gotten around to watching PASSION FISH, though, until very recently. It's everything I'd come to expect in a Sayles film: compelling dialogue, fascinating characters (all of them, even the bit-players who were only in one or two scenes), great soundtrack, smart casting, and wise, subtle humor.

The story is basically about two guarded, emotionally damaged women who find strength in each other as their friendship evolves.

However, there were a few little errors that irritated me, particularly since I had it on good authority that Sayles's understanding of rural Louisiana was dead-on. Apparently Sayles hadn't hired any Chicago fact-checkers, although one major, and a few minor, characters were from Chicago.

The sticking points were:

1. Two characters are discussing their Chicago ... Read More

Rating:

- PASSION FISH
THis is a movie rich. The acting is superb. No action but pleny of really good story. I have watched Passion Fish many times both in VHS and now in DVD. It never grows old.

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