Violets Are Blue (film)
Violets Are Blue | |
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Directed by | Jack Fisk |
Written by | Naomi Foner |
Produced by | Marykay Powell |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Ralf D. Bode |
Edited by | Edward Warschilka |
Music by | Patrick Williams |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $10 million[1] |
Box office | $4,743,287 |
Violets Are Blue is a 1986 American romantic drama film directed by Jack Fisk and starring Sissy Spacek and Kevin Kline.[2] The film was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Plot[]
After fifteen years of traveling around the world, a famous photographer named Gussie (Spacek) returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up for a two-week break. She meets her high school sweetheart Henry (Kline), now married to a woman he met when he was away at college and running the local newspaper he has inherited from his father. Soon after, an awkward and tension-filled romance ensues.
Cast[]
- Sissy Spacek as Gussie Sawyer
- Kevin Kline as Henry Squires
- Bonnie Bedelia as Ruth Squires
- John Kellogg as Ralph Sawyer
- Jim Standiford as Addy Squires
- Augusta Dabney as Ethel Sawyer
- Kate McGregor-Stewart as Sara Mae
- Annalee Jeffries as Sally
- Mike Starr as Tony
- Adrian Sparks as George
References[]
- ^ "AFI|Catalog". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (April 11, 1986). "SCREEN: 'VIOLETS ARE BLUE'". The New York Times.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1986 films
- English-language films
- 1986 romantic drama films
- American films
- American romantic drama films
- Columbia Pictures films
- Films scored by Patrick Williams
- Films shot in Delaware
- Films shot in Maryland
- Films shot in Baltimore
- Films directed by Jack Fisk
- Romantic drama film stubs