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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
987 Views


Right, Coach.

I don't know what you were like

efore the accident.

You mean my

pre-morbid personality?

Ooh, you've been reading

the literature.

You got a standing frame

at this house?

My business manager said

he bought everything in the catalog.

You have to use it.

I want you to stand one hour a day.

- sure.

- IF you're going to be my patient...

I know the whole routine,

and I'm not buying into it.

I don't want you coming to my house.

I don't want your pep talks.

This visit is just something...

that my business manager cooked up

with the insurance company.

Am I gonna meet this guy,

this business manager?

I'm out ot business.

No ramp.

The house has not been prepared.

I tigured we'll sort ot

work our way into it.

An old house.

Not that old.

Old houses are dirty.

I had my business manager call

to get it cleaned.

There should be a ramp.

- That hurts.

- You must be clean.

I'm clean enough.

It hurts.

You think this is paln?

At home I do

one hundred abortions.

Illegal. No drugs.

That is pain.

You eat now.

What exactly is this?

Kasha. Big tiber.

Is good for stool.

Yeah. It looks like it might

have something to do with that.

That's what it's all about.

- It was a computer error.

- Computer error?

Isn't somebody supposed to check dosages

befoRe the prescriptions are filled?

Do you know how many patients

a day we treat here?

I don't care how many.

The only one I caRe about is Scarlet.

A little cleaning?

It's important

that we have clean walls.

I'll be climbing them soon.

Can you hear this?

Is 3:
00 in morning.

- I'll turn the volume down.

- Is night.

You must sleep.

I got the rest

of my life to sleep.

Eat.

I'm not hungry.

Is good breaktast. Eat.

I'm not hungry.

I'm not even AwaKe.

No eat, no TV.

Weren't you in

Ilsa:
She-Beast Of The Gulag?

Eat.

I call agency.

They send new person tomorrow.

Betore I tound Him, I used to

get really depressed and all.

Betore I tound Him, I used to

get really depressed and all.

Like I'd try to go on a diet...

and I'd starve myselt and like

throw up a lot and everything, you know.

But then the minute I went otf the diet,

I gained back all the weight I'd lost.

And I'd teel so weak

and worthless...

and, you know, like...

- Pudgy.

- Pudgy! Yes!

But then I tound Him,

And it like clicked in my head...

that He loves you

whether you're...

like pudgy or skinny,

or short or tall...

or really smart

or kinda stupid...

or all healthy and athletic,

or like...

Crippled.

Physically challenged, you know?

- I'm sorry.

- You hate this job?

No, it's not that.

I mean, I do hate this job,

but that's not what's so terrible.

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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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