Falling from Grace

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Falling from Grace is a 1992 drama film, produced by Little B and distributed by Columbia Pictures.

[edit] Starring

  • John Mellencamp (Bud Parks)
  • Mariel Hemingway (Alice Parks)
  • Claude Akins (Speck Parks)
  • Dub Taylor (Grandpa Parks)
  • Kay Lenz (P.J. Parks)
  • Larry Crane (Ramey Parks)
  • Kate Noonan (Linda)
  • Deirdre O'Connell (Sally Cutler)
  • John Prine (Mitch Cutler)
  • Brent Huff (Parker Parks)
  • Joanne Jacobson (Marian Parks)
  • Tracy Cowles (Bobby Tucker)
  • Melissa Ann Hackman (Terri Jo Parks)
  • Mary Tom Crain (Grandma Parks)
  • Sigmund Balaban (Country Club Manager)

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by Lonesome Dove author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has thrown his life into turmoil. Returning to his native Indiana to try to reestablish a normal life. Instead he takes up with an old lover (Lenz), ignoring his loving wife (Hemingway), and duplicating the lifestyle of his womanizing father (Akins).It also marked Mellencamp's directorial debut.

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