Marie [Marie: A True Story] ** (1985, Sissy Spacek, Jeff Daniels, Keith Szarabajka) – Classic Movie Review 9911

Director Roger Donaldson’s 1985 film Marie [Marie: A True Story] is a good-hearted, conscientious, but insufficiently rousing biopic plus political drama, with Sissy Spacek as Marie Ragghianti, a 1958 Nashville battered wife who rises in the murky game of Tennessee politics after walking out on her husband.

More could be expected from John Briley’s script of Peter Maas’s true story, Marie: A True Story.

Spacek is all determination and Jeff Daniels is first-rate as her false friend Eddie Sisk – plus there is a good support cast – but it is not quite enough.

Also in the cast are Morgan Freeman, Fred Thompson, Keith Szarabajka, John Cullum, Don Hood, Trey Wilson, Lisa Banes, Graham Beckel, and Collin Wilcox Paxton.

Fred Dalton Thompson was Marie’s lawyer and Donaldson was so impressed with him during interviews that he asked him to play himself.

© Derek Winnert 2020 Classic Movie Review 9911

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