Blue Sky (film)

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Blue Sky
Directed by Tony Richardson
Produced by Robert H. Solo
Written by Rama Laurie Stagner (story)
Rama Laurie Stagner, Arlene Sarner, Jerry Leichtling (screenplay)
Starring Jessica Lange
Tommy Lee Jones
Powers Boothe
Carrie Snodgress
Amy Locane
Chris O'Donnell
Music by Jack Nitzsche
Cinematography Steve Yaconelli
Editing by Robert K. Lambert
Distributed by Orion Pictures Corporation
Release date(s) September 16, 1994
Running time 101 min.
Language English
Budget N/A
IMDb profile

Blue Sky is a 1994 film which tells the story of an Army officer whose outspokenness and his wife's mental difficulties have made him a pariah to the army.

The movie was adapted by Rama Laurie Stagner, Arlene Sarner and Jerry Leichtling from a story by Rama Laurie Stagner. It was directed by Tony Richardson and was his last film. The original music score was composed by Jack Nitzsche.

It stars Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Locane and Chris O'Donnell.

Jessica Lange won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film.

The movie was completed in 1991, but because of a bankruptcy by the original studio, it sat on the shelf until 1994.

Tagline: In a world of powerful secrets, love is the most powerful weapon.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the early 1960s, Hank and Carly Marshall are a military couple whose marriage unravels the pressures of his job and her mental instability. Hank is an Army major at odds with his superiors over the wisdom of nuclear testing. Carly is a free spirit, spiralling into a dangerous depression, after the family's move from Hawaii to a nowhere base in Alabama alarms the couple's oldest daughter, Alex, and sends Carly into an affair with the base commander, Vince Johnson.

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