Blue Sky

1994

Action / Drama / Romance

29
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 80% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 8831 8.8K

husband wife relationship alabama nuclear missile hand grenade military base atomic bomb test

Director

Tony Richardson Photo
Tony Richardson

Top cast

Timothy Bottoms Photo
Timothy Bottoms as Owens Ranch Cowboy
Dale Dye Photo
Dale Dye as Col. Mike Anwalt
Tommy Lee Jones Photo
Tommy Lee Jones as Hank Marshall
Jessica Lange Photo
Jessica Lange as Carly Marshall
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720.46 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 4
1.52 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by antileft 6 / 10

A Lesson in Acting

It is always a pleasure to watch giants in some film which is driven not by effects , explosions and rap-style language but by old-fashioned story and , simply , eye-popping acting , and two main actors , Mr T. Jones and , specially , Mme J. Lange deliver this in full . This smaller , cheaper film deals with the relationships between the military personnel and their spouses , where J. Lange portrays perfectly a lascivious southern belle with too grand illusions of an acting career, who with her sexual escapades becomes a sort of house-hold name in all the bases her husband is sent to , she being slightly neurotic , while tensions and constant arguments between the two are a norm , and their two beautiful daughters watch this in silence , being even more mature then their own mother . It is interesting to see Jones 's character always forgiving his wife , loving her completely , never hitting her , or calling her names .And when the viewer is almost certain that a typical and clichéd climax is inevitable , i.e. a fight between the couple with him stabbing his wife , the film takes a completely different turn , where Lange's character shows her southern true mettle and love for her husband, who becomes a victim of higher national interests . Briefly , a school of great , traditional acting ,light years away from today's self-proclaimed thespians with artificially rounded lips or feminine neurotic outbursts for no reasons , being on the same level as small children demanding a candy .
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Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 8 / 10

As "Lange" as the sky is blue...

Tony Richardson's final film was well-done. Carly Marshall (Jessica Lange) is the wife of military guy Hank Marshall (Tommy Lee Jones) in charge of atomic tests. Due to his frequent absence, she's beginning to lose her grip on mental sanity. Somewhere along the line, she reaches the breaking point, which also makes her see the folly in Hank's propagandistic work. She has no choice but to undermine it.

Jessica Lange finally won a well-deserved Best Actress Oscar for "Blue Sky" (she should have gotten one for "Frances"). Maybe some parts are a little hokey, but it's overall a good movie, looking at the nuclear age and also relationships.

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