Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 02/17/2009
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Paul Newman made his directorial debut and
Newman's wife,
Joanne Woodward, stars as
Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old unmarried schoolteacher who feels as though she's wasted her life.
Rachel's best friend,
Calla Mackie (
Estelle Parsons), invites her to attend a religious revival meeting. Here
Rachel is swept up in the emotional fervor orchestrated by a young guest preacher (
Terry Kiser). This is the first of several cathartic incidents which convince
Rachel to kick over the traces and express her own needs and emotions. She has a brief sexual liaison with an old family friend (
James Olson), and is delighted at the notion that she might have become pregnant.
Rachel ends up alone and childless (her "pregnancy" was nothing more than a benign cyst), but still determined to forge a new life for herself. Based the novel
A Jest of God by
Margaret Laurence,
Rachel, Rachel won New York Film Critics awards for both
Joanne Woodward and
Paul Newman, and an Oscar nomination for
Joanne Woodward.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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