Synopsis
"Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters (one strait-laced and one quite a bit of a loser).
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Cast
- Olivia Newton-JohnBitsy Mae Harling
- Kirk GeigerTy Williamson
- Beau BridgesG.W. Nethercott
- Bonnie BedeliaLatrelle Williamson
- Beth GrantSissy Hickey
- Leslie JordanEarl 'Brother Boy' Ingram
- Sarah HunleyJuanita Bartlett
- Ann WalkerLaVonda DuPree
- Delta BurkeNoleta Nethercott
- Dale DickeyGlyndora
Recommandations
- 63
Boston Globe
It's heady in the beginning, chaotic throughout, and numb with the suddenness of the Internet economy's plummet at the end. - 63
Chicago Tribune
A train wreck you can't help but watch. - 60
Variety
When Sordid Lives does what it does best -- showing Southern gals in the full flight of rabid self-denial -- it's as screamingly funny as this subgenre can get. - 60
New Times (L.A.)
It's composed of really long scenes that are mostly dialogue, with transition action imagined or implied only. Couldn't we go outside for at least one scene? - 50
L.A. Weekly
Some of the performances are remarkably natural amid so much farce. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Has its moments here and there, but not nearly enough of them to add up to a satisfying movie. - 30
Chicago Reader
To call this campy would be charitable. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
The laughs come in all the wrong places when they come at all.
