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Passion Fish
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 16, 1999
  • Originally Released: 1992
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 2,866
Passion Fish has the benefit of Sayles' smart dialogue, his eye for and attention to minor details and the riveting performances of two fine actresses. Full Review
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 4/4 -- The picture is sure-footed and accomplished and, to this point, the auteur's most satisfying marriage of head and heart. Full Review
Film Freak Central
Jul 6, 2002
Compelling film about two women whose spiritual transformation is precipitated by illness. Full Review
Spirituality and Practice
Aug 21, 2002
Rating: 4/5 -- McDonnell makes it work, with the help of Sayles' wonderful script. Full Review
Goatdog's Movies
Feb 28, 2002
Rating: A- -- A tightly-focused narrative about interior struggles and unexpected changes, the film is a cynical anti-Reagan story about monetary success and class distinctions, a political fable about female survivors. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Oct 8, 2006
...An acutely funny and affecting duel of wits....Woodward is superb...
Rolling Stone
Jan 21, 1993
Passion Fish drifts slowly by, like the turgid waters of Louisiana's bayous. Yet with his novelist's eye and story sense, and two brilliantly paired actresses, John Sayles pulls us ever deeper into the lives of a bitter paraplegic actress and her nurse. Full Review
Hartford Courant
May 29, 2018

Product Description:

Mary McDonnell stars as May-Alice Culhane, a New York-based soap opera star who is paralyzed in a road accident. She returns to the Louisiana bayou where she grew up and becomes the patient from hell, discharging one caretaker after another. Then along comes Chantelle (Alfre Woodard), a take-no-sass nurse with her own issues to deal with. Together the women rediscover themselves and what it means to live within limitations.

PASSION FISH comes after three "guy" films in a row for director John Sayles. His wife and longtime producer, Maggie Renzi, encouraged him to develop a script with female leads. Drawing upon his work as a hospital orderly in high school and college as well as Ingmar Bergman's seminal 1966 film PERSONA, Sayles created this script about the complexities of the caretaker-patient relationship--a relationship that has all the intimacy of a married couple and yet is motivated more by mutual need rather than love. PASSION FISH is languorously paced but pays dividends in many beautiful shots of the bayou, excellent zydeco music, and thoughtful insights into the intricacies of an evolving friendship.

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"A movie to keep your attention" Movie Lover: from BALTIMORE, MD US -- March, 1, 2014

This is a feel good movie that makes you wonder about how friendships come about through unusual circumstances. These two women are from two entirely different enviroments, but have the need for the same thing. True friendship and understanding and love.


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  • UPC: 043396532892
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