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  • 1987
  • PG-13
  • De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 1987
  • PG-13
  • De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
  • 1 h 45 m

Summary Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid. Meg, who aspires to make it in Hollywood as a singer and actress, has had a wild, man-filled life. Their reunion is joyful but also sti...

Directed By: Bruce Beresford

Written By: Beth Henley

  • 1987
  • PG-13
  • De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 1987
  • PG-13
  • De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
  • 1 h 45 m

Crimes of the Heart

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when Babe, the youngest, has just shot her husband. Oldest sister Lenny takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid. Meg, who aspires to make it in Hollywood as a singer and actress, has had a wild, man-filled life. Their reunion is joyful but also sti...

Directed By: Bruce Beresford

Written By: Beth Henley

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
58
46% Positive
6 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
15% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
58
46% Positive
6 Reviews
38% Mixed
5 Reviews
15% Negative
2 Reviews

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100
Director Bruce Beresford keeps stars Sissy Spacek, Jessica Lange, and Diane Keaton firmly rooted in the deep, dark black humor of Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. [01 Jul 2014, p.G15]
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It exists somewhere between parody and melodrama, between the tragic and the goofy. There are moments when the movie doesn't seem to know where it's going, but for once that's a good thing because the uncertainty almost always ends with some kind of a delightful, weird surprise.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
80
The powerhouse performances are directed by Bruce Beresford, who maintains balance among the actresses and keeps a lovely tone and smooth pace.
By Rita Kempley FULL REVIEW
60
Occasional bursts of delicious tragic humour nevertheless make this a not unlikeable 'feminist' mood piece.
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50
Crimes of the Heart feels random, vague and sluggish. The incidents don't build upon one another, but merely collapse into an undifferentiated heap. [12 Dec 1986, p.A]
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
40
As adapted by Miss Henley and directed by Bruce Beresford, this Crimes of the Heart has been turned into a majestic, totally humorless star turn for three individually splendid, collectively lost actresses -Diane Keaton (Lenny), Jessica Lange (Meg) and Sissy Spacek (Babe).
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
20
It is excruciating: a combination of Beth Henley’s insistently eccentric screenplay, Bruce Beresford’s frenzied direction and the sight of three singular talents on an acting roller coaster with no one riding the brakes.
By Sheila Benson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)
Release Date Jan 23, 1987
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline Meg just left one. Lenny never had one. Babe just shot one. The MaGrath sisters sure have a way with men!
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 3 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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