Georgia

 Georgia 1995 

• Director: Ulu Grosbard
• Seen by this director: Falling in Love
• Based on the novel: no
• Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levin, Max Perlich, John Doe, John C Reilly, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jason Carter
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Jennifer Jason Leigh – Annihilation, The Hateful Eight, Margot at the Wedding, Road to Perdition, eXistenZ, A Thousand Acres, Dolores Claibourne, Fast Times in Ridgmont High
• Mare Winningham – Philomena, Swing Vote, Six Feet Under, One-Trick Pony
• Ted Levine – Shutter Island, Wild Wild West, Heat, Silence of the Lambs, Ironweed
• Max Perlich – The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Darwin Awards, Hill Street Blues, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Homicide Life on the Streets, Feeling Minnesota, Beautiful Girls
• John Dow – Roswell, The Good Girl, Great Balls of Fire
• John C Reilly – Kong Skull Island, A Prairie Home Companion, The Aviator, The Hours, Chicago, The Good Girl, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,
• Why?  I liked it the first time.
• Seen: Once before. Now 2 April 2022 

Sadie (Jason Leigh) is a singer, an alcoholic, and a heavily made-up blues-rocking loser. Georgia (Winningham) is a clean-cut, housewifely superstar country and western singer with a husband, two and a half kids and a bucolic house in the country.

They’re sisters.

George never sought fame and fortune, but she got it. Sadie burned for it her entire life but screws up every time she gets a chance. She idolises Georgia, envies her success and family, and suffers from a severe inferiority complex. Georgia is sick and tired of Sadie’s neediness and constant demand for attention to her suffering.

Sisters. Love. Hate.

It’s more about Sadie than Georgia but the title is appropriate because Sadie lives her whole life as a distorted negative reaction to Georgia’s perfection. Jason Leigh is spectacular in the role. 

4 * of 5