Academy Awards, USA 1993
| Nominated Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role Michelle Pfeiffer |
Orion Pictures
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Unhappy Dallas housewife Michelle Pfeiffer, with an obsession for Jacqueline Kennedy, takes a cross country bus ride to attend the president's funeral when he is assassinated in her home town in 1963. Along the way, she befriends black man Dennis Haysbert and his young daughter. After the bus is in an accident, she discovers bruises on the girl and mistakenly assumes she has been kidnapped by Haysbert. She calls the FBI and they spend the rest of the movie on the run from the police. While credibility is not the film's strong point, and the Jackie O connection unclear, it is a powerful document of race relations in the Deep South and a tender love story between a lost woman, a black man facing his past and the little girl that brings them together.
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