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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Suzy Amis | ... | Josephine 'Jo' Monaghan | |
| Bo Hopkins | ... | Frank Badger | |
| Ian McKellen | ... | Percy Corcoran | |
| David Chung | ... | Tinman Wong | |
| Heather Graham | ... | Mary Addie | |
| Rene Auberjonois | ... | Streight Hollander | |
| Carrie Snodgress | ... | Ruth Badger | |
| Anthony Heald | ... | Henry Grey | |
| Melissa Leo | ... | Beatrice Grey | |
| Sam Robards | ... | Jasper Hill | |
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Olinda Turturro | ... | Elvira |
| Ruth Maleczech | ... | Shopkeeper | |
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Jeffrey Andrews | ... | Sam |
| Cathy Haase | ... | Mrs. Addie | |
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Peadair S. Addie Sr. | ... | Mr. Addie |
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Based on a true story, this is the tale of Josephine Monaghan, a young woman of the mid nineteenth century who is thrown out of her parents' home after being seduced by the family's portrait photographer and giving birth to his child. Josephine quickly learns that young, female, pretty, and alone are a bad combination for life in the wild west. In her desperation to survive, Josephine disguises herself as "Jo", a young man, and struggles to make a life for herself in a dingy frontier mining town. Can "Little Jo" live and love without revealing his secret? Written by Martin Lewison <lewison@pitt.edu>
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title directed by female | mining | f rated | death of hero | death of protagonist |Taglines:
In the Wild West, a woman had only two choices. She could be a wife or she could be a whore... Josephine Monaghan chose to be a man.Parents Guide:
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20 August 1993 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$20,773, 22 August 1993, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$543,091Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$565,530Company Credits
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When Jo pulls the money out of the pouch in the general store, the way she holds the money and pouch changes in the next shot. See more »Quotes
Frank Badger: Little Jo, you are the unfriendliest fella I ever met, and frankly quite pecular.See more »
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This is a great western that is hardly even known. It's directed by Maggie Greenwald and stars Suzy Amis as a woman in a rich family who is kicked out after she has a kid out of wedlock and she decides to go west. Amis knows she isn't going to survive as a woman because on the first night she is almost raped by two soldiers and barely escapes. So Amis decides to dress as a man and then makes a big cut on her face so it will leave a scar. Amis winds up staying in a mining town and the people believe she's man. Ian McKellen is a man who takes Amis in and shows her the ropes but he can get pretty violent when he's drunk. Amis doesn't stay with him long and winds up buying a place away from town so she can have her privacy. It's a great movie and i can't see why it isn't more well known.