Frankie Addams, 12-year-old tomboy, feels disconnected from the world. Frankie's mother died when she was born, and her father is a distant, uncomprehending figure. Her closest companions ...
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Title: The Member of the Wedding (TV Movie 1997)
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| Anna Paquin | ... | Frankie Addams | |
| Alfre Woodard | ... | Berenice Sadie Brown | |
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Corey Dunn | ... | John Henry |
| Enrico Colantoni | ... | Mr. Addams | |
| Anne Tremko | ... | Janice | |
| Matt McGrath | ... | Jarvis | |
| Pat Hingle | ... | Officer Wylie | |
| Jack Landry | ... | Red-Haired Soldier | |
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Maggie Marshall | ... | Emmaline Williams / Voice of Carson McCullers |
| Andy Stahl | ... | Mr. Williams (as Andrew Stahl) | |
| Joanne Pankow | ... | Mrs. Wray | |
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Lou Criscuolo | ... | Blue Moon Owner |
| Stephanie Denise Griffin | ... | Winnie (as Stephanie Griffin) | |
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James J. Pence Jr. | ... | Minister |
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Al Wiggins | ... | T.T. Williams (as Alfred Wiggins) |
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Frankie Addams, 12-year-old tomboy, feels disconnected from the world. Frankie's mother died when she was born, and her father is a distant, uncomprehending figure. Her closest companions are the family's African American maid, Berenice Sadie Brown, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry West. She has no friends in her small Southern town and dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their honeymoon.
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There's a time in a young girl's life when nothing's right...but everything's possible.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
29 January 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
A Member of the Family See more »Filming Locations:
Wilmington, North Carolina, USACompany Credits
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Frankie Addams: I couldn't be jealous of one of them without being jealous of both of them.
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Music by Laurence Rosenthal
Lyrics by Dennis Spiegel
Performed by Willow Wray
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Berenice Sadie Brown: You're jealous of your brother.Frankie Addams: I couldn't be jealous of one of them without being jealous of both of them.
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How Long Is Loneliness?Music by Laurence Rosenthal
Lyrics by Dennis Spiegel
Performed by Willow Wray
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Paquin's accent isn't great, although she is a reasonably affecting Frankie. Julie Harris she is not, but she has her moments. Woodard is terrific as Berenice, as far as she was allowed to go.
But the novel, which is a dreamy, exquisite book, has been eviscerated. Not only did the writer (or more likely, the producer or the director or Hallmark) simply lop off the rest of the story, but Berenice's big scene, wherein she tells of Ludie's death and her subsequent, hopeless search for "pieces" (as she says) of him, has been eliminated, except for a fragment plopped (why?!) at the beginning of the movie.
Really, I think there should be a law against hacks putting their hands on art. Everything Mrs. McCullers created -- the characters, the pathos, the heat and boredom of that summer, the depth of their sorrow, longing, restlessness, disappointment... oh! and the plot -- has been diluted for easy consumption by the public, most of whom, alas, will not even know the difference. Which, I suppose, is why, and how, the perpetrators of this pale fraud justified this sorry mess. Shame on them.
Read the book and then (and only then) see the original movie. Please.