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Synopsis: May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had eagerly left years before. She drinks heavily and vents her bitterness on the succession of nurses who are hired to take care of her and immediately quit because she is so unbearable. Chantelle is the latest of these nurses, and May-Alice is told that Chantelle is the last nurse she'll get. Chantelle for reasons of her own, is also in a position where she badly needs the job to work out. The movie focuses on how these two women become friends and help each other heal emotionally.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Sayles
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
R
Year:
1992
135 min
1,026 Views


I can run into walls with my chair,

knock over props.

Have Max take me back...

so that twit jessica can get it on

with him while I'm in the room!

None ot this

is chiseled in stone yet.

Why not put me in a coma?

Total tucking veg.

Then shoot a few angles

of me in bed...

and I can come down here

and phone in voice-over, Vance.

Brain death. Think ot the metaphoric

possibilities in that.

- I'd have to check with EdnA.

- You do that.

This is a chance that's not

gonna come around again.

You better think about it.

I'm at the Ramada in Laf Ayette.

Call me.

Chantelle, right?

uh-huh.

she seems really good,

don't you think?

I guess.

I mean, she hasn't gained

a lot ot weight or anything.

Think I have a shot with her?

A shot?

TaLking her into coming back

to the show. I think she's ready.

Ask her.

You know, I might need an ally

on this, Chantelle.

she'd have to come up right away.

It's her lite.

Can't have her going to seed

down here, can we?

Guess he's not staying tor dinner.

Help me on board, okay?

I want to go out.

We have to taLk.

Yeah.

Vance asked me

to come back to daytime.

- You could do it.

- Yeah.

I could.

so, what did your tather say?

He thinks you're

a good intluence on me.

shows how much he knows.

I can't believe I still have to do

whatever he says, like I'm 13 years old.

I played the f aithful daughter

in Lear once.

What's her name?

Cordelia.

There's not much you can do

but play it straight...

till it's over.

Haven't spent auly down here

since I lit out.

It gets pretty steamy.

I'll bet it does.

You think he'd let Denita

stay with you this summer?

I have to have a job.

You've got a job.

In New York City?

He wouldn't go for that.

What's New York City

got to do with it?

It's where your show is.

Back to daytime? Pshaw.

Darlin', it's either Friday nights

at 10:
00 or nothin'.

You turned him down?

It I'm gonna be here...

I need you workin' for me.

Bullshit.

If I'm lyin', I'm dyin'.

Then we're stuck

with each other.

Well, for the time being.

- Chantelle?

- Yeah?

You are gonna have to

learn how to cook.

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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). His film Men with Guns (1997) has been nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry. more…

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