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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


You got problems

wlth your boytriend?

Yes.

Well, you shouldn't let some big dope

get you all hysterical.

But he's not a dope.

He's not even American.

What's his name? Derek?

No.

- jean-Claude?

- No.

Paulo?

Yes.

Do you know that Blake?

Ditterent show.

I hate her.

How's about Lucinda?

Lucinda?

On the stories.

Do you know her?

A ditterent show.

Raven? DominiQue?

- Ditterent show.

- It's on the same network though.

she comes on right atter you.

There's not like a room where

they store us all in between shows.

What about that Erica?

Morgan City, which is like

the lowest pit oF hell, you know?

I was stuck there tor about

two or three weeks...

until I met this guy Blackout,

this biker.

You like bikes?

Blackout got these disability checKs

trom the government, you know.

'Cause he was in this

psychological drug experiment thing...

when he was in the army,

and somethin' went wrong.

You know what it's like

to sleep with somebody that's got...

like a ten-inch hunting knite

strapped to his thigh?

But you know,

he was an okay guy really...

as long as he

stayed on medicatlon.

Boy, it he skipped a dose or two,

that was like...

And besides, he had to go back

in the hospital to get a retit...

on this steel plate that,

you know, he had in his head.

And that's when I met

this guitar player.

You know, heavy metal?

Well, this is way beyond that.

I know this guy that got electrocuted

once when he was working out on the rig.

He told me that he sees exactly the same

kind ot blue flashes when Dwaine plays.

You ever been electrocuted?

I'm Chantelle.

Didn't think they'd

send another one.

How long have you been

without somebody?

I dropped the remote.

I think it's behind the couch.

You really oughta have

a ramp out there.

Breaktast.

Oh, sh*t.

I haven't been taking my...

Ditropan.

- I had an accident here.

- I'IL help you wAsh up.

Listen, Sharelle.

Chantelle.

You got any problems...

personal problems...

L don't wanna hear 'em.

You been doin' this long?

No.

You?

You are a nurse, aren't you?

Yeah.

I just haven't done

this caretaker thing betore.

I mean, staying over

at somebody's house.

Well, I'll tell you, Shondelle,

it's a snap.

Chantelle.

All the things I can't do,

you do 'em tor me.

These days,

that's just about everything.

Can't go anywhere by myselt.

I can't cook anymore.

I can't work anymoRe.

I can't sh*t

without a suppository.

I can't have sex I can feel...

unless I really

get into blowj*bs.

Sorry.

You're probably some big Christian,

and I just put my foot in my mouth.

It's none ot my business

what you put in your mouth, Ms. Culhane.

Chantelle, huh?

What'd they tell you about me

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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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