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Title: Hush (1998)
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| Jessica Lange | ... | Martha Baring | |
| Gwyneth Paltrow | ... | Helen Baring | |
| Johnathon Schaech | ... | Jackson Baring | |
| Nina Foch | ... | Alice Baring | |
| Debi Mazar | ... | Lisa | |
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Kaiulani Lee | ... | Sister O'Shaughnessy |
| David Thornton | ... | Gavin | |
| Hal Holbrook | ... | Dr. Franklin Hill | |
| Richard Lineback | ... | Hal Bentall | |
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Richard Kohn | ... | Clayton Richards |
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Faith Potts | ... | Georgina Richards |
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Tom Story | ... | Priest |
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Jolene Carroll | ... | Church Warden |
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Jacob Press | ... | Usher |
| Joe Inscoe | ... | Doctor | |
Handsome Jackson Baring, heir to grand Southern horse farm Kilronan, choose to build a life in New York while it's run by his domineering mother Martha. When Jackson returns to present his Yankee bride Helen, the young couple gets lured into staying for the Christmastide, then to help Martha save the farm from financial trouble or at least until Jackson son's birth. As cripple grandmother Alice Baring suggested, Martha is playing a ruthless game, just as she lied about the seven year old, traumatized Jackson's father Jack's deadly fall. Written by KGF Vissers
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Jackson Baring takes his girlfriend Helen to his family's horse farm Kilronin. Jackson's mother Martha has been running the place but would like her son to take over. Jackson and Helen are living together in New York City and are reluctant to leave that life. But Helen somehow gets pregnant, even though she was using birth control, and the two get married and eventually do take over the farm.
Jackson blames himself for his father's death when he was 7. Martha knows the truth but won't tell him, and she seems to have an unnatural relationship with her son. It's almost as if she sees his father and wants to be with him in that way. And she sees the baby as a means of continuing the legacy, but not a child to be loved, at least not in the way most people would. Her treatment of Helen is strange, as if Helen is only useful until the baby is born, and then she will be in the way.
The ending is exciting and sort of creepy at the same time.
Jessica Lange does a fine job here as Jackson's overly controlling and demented mother. However, Nina Foch gives the standout performance as Jackson's grandmother, who is kept in a fancy nursing home because only she knows the truth about how her son died.
I think all the leading actors did a good job here. I usually can't stand Debi Mazar, who was a co-worker to Helen and possibly her boss, but I would like to have seen more of her here. But if Helen had to move out of New York, I guess keeping her job was out of the question.
I suppose my favorite scene was the one where Helen gets out of bed naked and meets her mother-in-law for the first time. That one was edited for TV in such a way it seemed kind of jerky and I didn't get to see much, but a lot depends on how one sees this movie.
It's not typical of what I like in a movie, but still entertaining.