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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
996 Views


at the agency?

You're a T-10.

What else?

You have your own money, so the pay

was better than the state cases.

Did they tell you

I was a b*tch?

On wheels.

You tound my umbilical cord.

Do you have any way to call me

it you need anything?

I just turn the volume way up.

Look, I got no idea what

the last one left you up there.

I'll be tine.

Good night, Ms. Culhane.

I don't usually wet myself.

Don't worry about it.

Do you need me

to cut that up For you more?

I can't deal with grapetruit

in the morning.

We don't have any eggs.

I've got 'em on the list.

I can't deal with

breaktast at all.

There's still a car

out bacK, isn't there?

- Big brown thing?

- Good.

Last one took it into Laf ayette a couple

times. Atraid she might have sold it.

Is there anything you need

betore I go?

L can change the channels myselt.

should I help you in the bathroom

betore I go?

I was the best voider

in my rehab group.

Thought they would give me

a tucking medaL or something.

Your bathroom's

not set up too well.

Keys should be in the car.

Try to get back

as soon as I can.

- Don't kill yourselt.

- You neither.

Oh, God.

You ain't from around here.

I can tell.

Yeah.

And you are.

I can tell.

somebody's in a bad mood.

Must've walked what?

ThRee, tour miles?

What do you do

for this lady you work for?

I take care of her, I guess.

White lady?

- Mm-hmm.

- Old?

Are you a detective?

- You a nurse?

- I was, almost.

The pay must be real good

to get a tine-lookin' young lady...

to live out with some

sickly old white woman.

Pay's all right.

- I hope you stay workin' around here.

- Look.

It you're trying to be charmin',

don't be wastin' it on me.

What is that smell?

- That's horse, darlin'.

- You put a horse back there?

I take care of 'em.

Put shoes on their hooves.

Train 'em tor their owners.

You're giving me griet

about workin' tor a white woman.

Is this the town?

Most oF it.

Where you want me to leave you?

Right here Is good.

Right.

You want me to tind some gas

when you're back out?

I can manage, thanks.

- Sugar.

- What?

sugar Ledoux. That's me.

You have got to be kidding.

Well, my real name is ulysses.

Like ulysses in the ballad.

What's your name?

- Chantelle.

- Chantelle what?

Chantelle who's got no time tor

French-talkin' Louisiana cowboys.

You dance, Chantelle?

No. Not anymore.

Excuse me.

- Could I buy one ot those cans?

- Them are mine.

- You don't work here?

- Well, nobody work here.

Old Abe there owns the pumps,

but he mostly drinks and sleeps.

Leave the box out tor people

to put the money in. He's sleepin' now.

So they just leave the money

for what they take?

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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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