Sissy Spacek | 80's Movie Guide

1986 Releases / Columbia Pictures

Violets Are Blue (1986)

February 7, 2017March 18, 2023

Violets Are Blue is sort of a high school reunion for the heart, a movie about one of those moments everybody has: You meet the person you loved when you were 17, and now you are 33, and a lot of your life’s history has been written. And yet, as your eyes meet, your last kiss is as clear as yesterday.

1986 Releases / Universal Pictures

Night Mother (1986)

February 4, 2017March 29, 2023

Night Mother movie storyline. What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates’ dilemma. Her daughter, Jessie, has had it.

1986 Releases / De Laurentiis Entertainment Group

Crimes of the Heart (1986)

February 2, 2017April 4, 2023

Crimes of the Heart focuses on the Magrath sisters—Lenny, Meg, and Babe—who reunite at the family home in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, after Babe shoots her abusive husband. The three were raised by Old Granddaddy after their mother hanged herself and the family cat and have been eccentric ever since.

1985 Releases / Metro Goldwyn Mayer / United Artists

Marie (1985)

January 27, 2017April 15, 2023

Marie movie storyline. It’s the mid 1970s. Moving back home with her mother Virginia in Tennessee, Marie Ragghianti was able to leave an abusive marriage to eke out a better life for herself and her three young children – the youngest, Ricky, for who she would have to deal with his major health issues – by waiting tables, all the while being able to complete the degree requirements at Vanderbilt to obtain a B.A. in English and Psychology.

1984 Releases / Universal Pictures

The River (1984)

January 22, 2017April 19, 2023

The River movie storyline. Tom and Mae Garvey are a hard working farming couple living with their two children on the east Tennessee farm owned by Tom’s family for generations. They and many of their neighbors have hit hard times of late.

1982 Releases / Universal Pictures

Missing (1982)

January 9, 2017April 23, 2023

Missing movie storyline. In September 1973, in Chile, the American journalist Charles Horman arrives in Valparaiso with his friend Terry Simon to meet his wife Beth and bring her back to New York with him. However, they are surprised by the military coup d’état sponsored by the US Government to replace President Salvador Allende and Charles is arrested by the military force.