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A divorcee with two sons has an affair with a young sailor passing through her Texas town in 1944.A divorcee with two sons has an affair with a young sailor passing through her Texas town in 1944.A divorcee with two sons has an affair with a young sailor passing through her Texas town in 1944.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
James Binzer
- Sailor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- William D. Wittliff
- Sara Clark(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaDebut theatrical feature film of actor Henry Thomas whose next theatrical film would be E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) which was also for the Universal Pictures studio, as would be Cloak & Dagger (1984).
- GoofsThe movie is set in 1944, in the part they show North Beach the Harbor Bridge is shown but it wasn't built till 1956
- ConnectionsFeatured in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 20th Anniversary Special (2002)
- SoundtracksRum and Coca Cola
Written by The Lord Invador (uncredited) and Lionel Belasco (uncredited), often incorrectly attributed to Morey Amsterdam, Paul Baron and Jeri Sullavan
Performed by The Andrews Sisters
Courtesy of MCA Records
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Southern Comfort
As a dyed in the wool Yankee I must confess to a certain weakness for things Southern. They seem to do everything larger than life down there, possessing a daring and a sense of style a million miles away from us hyper-rational northerners, who, though we won the Civil War, seem to have lost the culture war. Anyone ever heard of Yankee fried chicken? In the movies the South can lay claim to not only the most acclaimed movie of Hollywood's "golden age" (Gone With the Wind) to its credit, but a lot of fine little ones as well. Indeed, since the early sixties, around the time To Kill a Mockingbird, there has evolved a genre which for want of a better term one might call the Southern Art Film, which is generally a modest though not B picture with high artistic aspirations, featuring first rate actors playing believable, for the most part un-stereotyped characters (Tomorrow, Sounder, Conrack, The Great Santini, Driving Miss Daisy, The Apostle, to name just a few). Raggedy Man falls more or less into this category, as it tells its modest tale of an abandoned wife and a footloose sailor, their love, the time they spend together, how this affects her children. Not a very eventful film, its slow pace and fine acting saves it. The music, alternately jaunty and wistful is of the sort that has become a cliché, and I wish they hadn't used it. The actors are outstanding, however, with Sissy Spacek and especially Eric Roberts both in peak form. Roberts is an enigmatic presence, which works for this film. Almost too pretty to be credible at times (not his fault), his work here makes me wonder why he never became a major star. In any case, the movie is well worth catching for some very good moments and a story that pulls at the heartstrings, but in a gentle, uninsistant way, with an ending that's sad but not depressing.
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,976,198
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $287,081
- Sep 20, 1981
- Gross worldwide
- $1,976,198
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