Blue Sky (film)

Blue Sky
Directed by	Tony Richardson
Produced by	Robert H. Solo
Written by	Rama Laurie Stagner Arlene Sarner Jerry Leichtling
Starring	Jessica Lange Tommy Lee Jones Powers Boothe Carrie Snodgress Amy Locane Chris O'Donnell
Music by	Jack Nitzsche
Cinematography	Steve Yaconelli
Editing by	Robert K. Lambert
Distributed by	Orion Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)	September 16, 1994 (1994-09-16)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$3,359,465 (USA)

Blue Sky is a 1994 film, the last by Tony Richardson. It was adapted by Rama Laurie Stagner, Arlene Sarner and Jerry Leichtling from a story by Rama Laurie Stagner. The original music score was composed by Jack Nitzsche.

It stars Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Locane and Chris O'Donnell.

The film won critical praise and Lange garnered the 1994 Academy Award for Best Actress, along with the Golden Globe Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award and the Sant Jordi de Cine award for Best Actress.

The film was completed in 1991, but because of the bankruptcy of Orion Pictures, it sat on the shelf until 1994.

Plot

In the early 1960s, Major Hank Marshall and his wife Carly are having marital problems because of the pressures of his job and her mental illness. Hank is a nuclear engineer who favors underground nuclear testing, and at odds with his superiors over the wisdom of open-air detonations. Carly is a free spirit who appears to be suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder and spiralling into a severe depression, and slowly being suffocated by domestic torpor and encroaching age. Her behaviour is, to say the least, embarrassing for her husband, especially in the confines of a military base. Her husband's reactions to this behaviour are among the most interesting aspects of the movie. The family's move from Hawaii to an isolated base in Alabama alarms the couple's oldest daughter, Alex, and sends Carly into an affair with the base commander, Vince Johnson.

Cast

• Jessica Lange as Carly Marshall
• Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Marshall
• Powers Boothe as Vince Johnson
• Carrie Snodgress as Vera Johnson
• Amy Locane as Alex Marshall
• Chris O'Donnell as Glenn Johnson

External links

• Blue Sky at the Internet Movie Database
• Blue Sky at AllRovi
• Blue Sky at Rotten Tomatoes