Shy People

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Shy People
Shy people.jpg
Directed byAndrei Konchalovsky
Written byAndrei Konchalovsky
Gérard Brach
Produced byYoram Globus
Menahem Golan
StarringBarbara Hershey
Jill Clayburgh
Martha Plimpton
CinematographyChris Menges
Edited byAlain Jakubowicz
Music byTangerine Dream
Distributed byGolan-Globus
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$769,119[1]

Shy People is a 1987 American drama about two branches of a family that reunite, with tragic results. It stars Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, and Martha Plimpton. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, written by Konchalovsky, and Gérard Brach, and features music by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream.

Hershey won the Best Actress award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for her performance.[2] It was one of the last film roles for actor Merritt Butrick, who died from AIDS in 1989. It was filmed by the bayous of South Louisiana.

Plot summary[]

Diana Sullivan is a successful Manhattan writer and photojournalist, seemingly oblivious to the serious cocaine addiction that her wild child daughter, Grace, has developed. A commission by Cosmopolitan magazine to write an article about a lost branch of Diana's family leads them deep into the bayous of Louisiana, where they encounter Diana's distant cousin, Ruth. Married at 12 to an abusive man whose current whereabouts are an increasingly troubling cipher, Ruth rules over her three adult sons, all less than perfectly cogent, with equal parts protectiveness and ferocity, while a fourth, disowned son adds to the volatility of the situation. As the fascinated Diana and wary Ruth circle one another, Grace, bored and in grip of her addiction, toys with her naive cousins with devastating consequences.

Cast[]

Soundtrack[]

Shy People
Shy People.png
1988 LP album cover
Soundtrack album by
Tangerine Dream
Released1988
Recorded1987
GenreElectronic music
Length36:06
LabelVarèse Sarabande
ProducerTangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream chronology
Near Dark
(1988) 		Shy People
(1988) 		Livemiles
(1988)

Shy People is the thirty-third major release and eleventh soundtrack album by Tangerine Dream. It is the soundtrack to the 1988 movie of the same name.[3]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Edgar Froese, Chris Franke and Paul Haslinger.

No.TitleLength
1."Shy People" (vocal version)7:50
2."Joe's Place"2:10
3."The Harbor"4:00
4."Nightfall"4:00
5."Dancing on a White Moon"3:03
6."Civilized Illusions"3:50
7."Swamp Voices"3:13
8."Transparent Days"3:00
9."Shy People" (Instrumental version)5:00
Total length:36:06

Personnel[]

The movie's actual sound track uses different versions of "Shy People" and "The Harbor" with different sets of lyrics, sung by Michael Bishop.

Cinematography[]

Shy People was shot by two-time Academy Award-winner Chris Menges, who also worked on A World Apart, a film for which Barbara Hershey was recognized at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.

Reception[]

Critical response[]

Shy People has an approval rating of 64% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews, and an average rating of 6.18/10.[4]

Awards and nominations[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Shy People". The Numbers.
  2. ^ a b "Festival de Cannes: Shy People". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  3. ^ Berling, Michael (29 September 2016). "Shy People". Voices in the Net.
  4. ^ "Shy People". Rotten Tomatoes.

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