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  • 1981
  • R
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 1981
  • R
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to be at the switchboard day and night. She was originally told by her boss Mr. Rigby that this job would only be a stepping-stone to a more lucrative j...

Directed By: Jack Fisk

Written By: William D. Wittliff, Sara Clark

  • 1981
  • R
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 1981
  • R
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m

Raggedy Man

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to be at the switchboard day and night. She was originally told by her boss Mr. Rigby that this job would only be a stepping-stone to a more lucrative j...

Directed By: Jack Fisk

Written By: William D. Wittliff, Sara Clark

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
61
44% Positive
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56% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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44% Positive
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56% Mixed
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88
The movie was made with a lot of love and startingly fresh memories of the early 1940s, and reminds us once again that Spacek is a treasure.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
(Fisk) gives us flowing, expressive images that linger in the memory. What also lingers in the memory are some of the performances Fisk gets: Spacek in particular, who seems grown up, and Roberts, who is unexpectedly simple and open.
By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW
63
A patchwork quilt of clashing colors, but it's cozy and warm. [10 Oct 1981]
By Jay Scott FULL REVIEW
60
A small, lovingly detailed story of wartime hardship and smalltown malice, Raggedy Man proceeds with a quiet, lyric, slightly sentimental charm, but it doesn't trust its own modest virtues. [05 Oct 1981, p.78]
By David Ansen FULL REVIEW
60
A compelling but oddly empty film.
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50
Raggedy Man is something like a country-and-western ballad that relates a supposedly sad, melodramatic story but whose simple, repetitive, upbeat rhythms effectively deny the awfulness of the events being sung about.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
40
Raggedy Man is starved for scenes that might fill out our scanty store of information--for example, a little more about the marriage, the love affair, her identity as a mother. Even the location needs to be filled out, since one forms the misimpression that Gregory is not so much a small town as a ghost town. Next time, the Fisks owe it to themselves to bite off enough material to chew. [03 Jul 1982, p.B3]
By Gary Arnold FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Universal Pictures
Release Date Sep 18, 1981
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
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Tagline Sometimes it takes a stranger to give you the courage to follow your heart.
Website https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/movies/drama/raggedy-man/85ed6de4-cbbc-3d6f-ac3d-2dc23140f507
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination

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