| Desert Bloom | |
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| Directed by | Eugene Corr |
| Produced by | Michael Hausman |
| Written by | Eugene Corr Linda Remy |
| Starring | JoBeth Williams Jon Voight Annabeth Gish Ellen Barkin Allen Garfield |
| Music by | Brad Fiedel |
| Cinematography | Reynaldo Villalobos |
| Editing by | Cari Coughlin |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 1986 |
| Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Desert Bloom is a 1986 American drama film directed by Eugene Corr and starring an ensemble cast led by Jon Voight and JoBeth Williams. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and funded through the Sundance Film Festival Institute.[1]
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World War II has not been over for long. Jack Chismore, who runs a gas station in a remote corner of Nevada, notices quite a few military vehicles stopping for fuel or passing by.
Jack is married to Lily, and his young stepdaughter Rose is at an impressionable age. Jack's sister-in-law, Starr, is getting a divorce and comes to live with them, upsetting the routine of what is already a small and cramped house.
In time, Jack and his family come to dread the growing possibility that the military is conducting atomic-bomb testing in the desert region nearby. Not many people would be put at risk by such a test blast in this isolated part of the world, but the Chismores would be a clear and endangered exception.