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Synopsis: It's the early 1960s. Nuclear engineer Hank Marshall is a major in the US Army, he who works on top secret nuclear testing projects. Trouble follows him from posting to posting largely because of his mentally unstable wife, Carly Marshall, who is bipolar. During her manic phases, her already overt sexuality, which she models after such sex symbols as Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, is ratcheted up a notch, that partying behavior which is mixed with less frequent phases of physically destructive behavior. Regardless, Hank and Carly love each other, Hank who would admit to himself that he enjoys the fact that other men find Carly attractive, which is partly why he allows her to act the way she does in public. In turn, they mutually love their now two teenaged daughters, Alex and Becky. Reassigned from their two year posting in Hawaii largely due to the ruckus Carly has caused there, they are next sent to Alabama, the base under the command of Vince Johnson, his wife, Vera Johnson, wh
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Tony Richardson
Production: Orion Home Video
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
77%
PG-13
Year:
1994
101 min
469 Views


We've got a nuclear test program

that's become something

of a political football.

And I just don't like to see

us getting kicked around.

Yes, sir.

I appreciate that.

I mean,

if this damn test ban

is ratified, major,

You and me are slated

to be among the first

to get our butts kicked.

As I understand it,

if the test ban is ratified,

We simply abandon atmospheric

tests and go underground.

Given some of the test results

I've been looking at, I think

that's the way to go.

Well, I can

appreciate that.

But we're a team here.

We have to present one

consistent point of view.

You understand that.

You're a soldier.

Yes, sir. I am a soldier

and my duty is science.

Well, I'm just reminding you

that we work for the army,

Not the a.E.C., congress,

or popular science.

You understand?

Yes, sir.

Good. That will be all, major.

If I hadn't gotten married,

I was going to hollywood

for a screen test.

Well, you sure are pretty enough

to be in the movies.

I took ballet too.

Did I tell you?

I just love

getting the flowers

after a performance.

Carly, these are just

the greatest bunch of gals

you'd ever want to know.

Now, they're just

all gonna make you feel

real at home. Come on.

Ladies, help has arrived.

Mom's gonna kill you.

No, she won't.

Let's play a joke on her.

What kind of joke?

We'll both go and lay down

on the living room floor

and pretend we're dead or sick.

Hello. I'm home.

Where's mom?

I don't know.

Probably at the movies.

She didn't leave a note?

Actually, school

was pretty good.

The principal

and his custodial staff

took turns raping me,

While governor wallace himself

stood there and watched

and welcomed us to alabama.

I guess that's what you'd call

southern hospitality.

Oh, daddy's home.

I missed you.

I'm glad to see you.

Sorry I'm late.

Hello, girls.

ta da

I've decided

to become a makeup artist.

My face is my easel.

Honey, you're much too fair

to wear that dark eye shadow and

much too young to wear makeup.

I told you.

Wife, I hope you got

food in those bags.

Oh, I got that and more.

We are gonna have

a party tonight.

Lookee here.

That, my dear, is for you.

Goody.

And for my sweet man.

To replace the one

that was lost in that move

to japan or germany or alaska.

Thanks, mom.

Will you teach me?

As soon as you wash

your pretty little face.

A selmer.

Thank you, sweetheart,

I've been missing a clarinet.

Did you know that your daddy

worked his way through college

playing in a band?

My daddy? No.

Major squarehead?

Oh, yeah.

I found that in a pawn

shop along with-

For alexandra.

It's 'cause you're so smart

and you see things

so clearly and-

Well, you can be

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