Saturday, November 5, 2016

Marie (1985)


Released September 25th in the US.
Filmed entirely in Tennessee.
Based on truths.
The story : In the early 70s , Marie took her 3 young children and fled her abusive husband.
Back home with her mother  , Marie took small jobs to make ends meet.
Then Marie found out that a guy she went to school with was a local DA and looking for a secretary.
Marie applied for the job and got it. It helped that she knew her new boss.
Marie did so well at her job that when the Governor was looking for a woman to put on the board of parole , her boss put in a good word for Marie.
She got the job and worked really hard. But when she began noticing some corrupt goings on in the parole system , she could not sit still.
Stars Sissy Spacek , Vincent Irizarry , Shane Wexell , Dawn Carmen , Robert Green Benson lll , Jeff Daniels , Keith Szarabajka , Lisa Banes , John Cullum , Fred Dalton Thompson  , Trey Wilson , Morgan Freeman , Malcolm McCalman , Don Hood , Graham Beckel , Collin Wilcox Paxton
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Rated PG13
DRAMA

"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing."

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