Synopsis
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave causes tongues to wag in town.
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Cast
- Sissy SpacekNita
- Eric RobertsTeddy
- Sam ShepardBailey
- William SandersonCalvin
- Tracey WalterArnold
- R. G. ArmstrongRigby
- Henry ThomasHarry
- Carey Hollis Jr.Henry
- Ed GeldartHenry
- Ed GeldartMr. Calloway
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie was made with a lot of love and startingly fresh memories of the early 1940s, and reminds us once again that Spacek is a treasure. - 80
The New Yorker
(Fisk) gives us flowing, expressive images that linger in the memory. What also lingers in the memory are some of the performances Fisk gets: Spacek in particular, who seems grown up, and Roberts, who is unexpectedly simple and open. - 70
Time Out
Spacek herself is given free rein, and turns in all that you'd expect and more, including a number of marvelous little insights from her own Texas childhood. Something as slight as this could never have got off the ground without her, but she makes you glad it did. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
A patchwork quilt of clashing colors, but it's cozy and warm. [10 Oct 1981] - 60
TV Guide Magazine
A compelling but oddly empty film. - 60
Newsweek
A small, lovingly detailed story of wartime hardship and smalltown malice, Raggedy Man proceeds with a quiet, lyric, slightly sentimental charm, but it doesn't trust its own modest virtues. [05 Oct 1981, p.78] - 50
The New York Times
Raggedy Man is something like a country-and-western ballad that relates a supposedly sad, melodramatic story but whose simple, repetitive, upbeat rhythms effectively deny the awfulness of the events being sung about. - 50
Variety
This is standard stuff and hardly worth Spacek’s talents.
