UMA THURMAN AS SISSY


After having read the book, I found Uma Thurman to be perfectly cast as Sissy Hankshaw. Anyone agree?

Also: I read a long time ago that Shelley Duvall was originally supposed to play the part in a seventies production of the novel. I think that would have been very interesting.

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I just finsihsed the book and while reading it I kept seeing sissy as uma, so I think she fits the bill , since she is tall an thin (like in the book)with blue eyes and blonde hair, plus uma has that offbeat thing goin on, like sissy does, an a kind of nervousness.

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Maybe if Thurman could act she would have done a better job. There is a reason she was named Worst Actress Of 1993, and it wasn't the role. Duvall would have been very interesting, I never considered her. A "Roxanne"/"Splash" vintage Darryl Hannah would have been way better than Thurman

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This is definitely not Thurman's best performance, but with the right role, she can be amazing. I could see Duvall playing an interesting Sissy, too.

"I did cramps the way Meryl Streep did accents" - Calliope (Middlesex)

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Uma was OK but Rain Phoenix was downright painful to watch.

I wish they had made the movie in the 1970s and cast Sissy Spacek as Sissy and Geena Davis as Bonanza Jellybean. I'm not sure the chemistry would have worked though. However, Uma and Rain had absolutely ZERO chemistry so it would be hard to do worse.

Also, Angie Dickinson was just AWFUL in the role of Miss Adrian. Betty White or Angela Lansbury would have been good for that part.

Except for John Hurt and Pat Morita, the acting was mediocre to bad throughout, which IMHO can be laid at the feet of poor casting and bad direction. At least Hurt and Morita played it as broad farce and that worked. The rest of them took themselves way too seriously, as did the entire movie which is what doomed it.

The cinematography was good though.

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