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THE MOVIE:

Movies like Sweetie remind me of why I live alone. And in a different state than the rest of my family.

Jane Campions 1989 debut is a self-consciously quirky movie about extreme family dysfunctions. Kay (Karen Colston) is a sourpuss who believes in fate more than she does engaging in actual social interactions. An outcast at her workplace, she sets her sights on a coworkers fianc , Louis (Tom Lycos), after he personifies a fortune tellers prophecy about the love of Kays life. Louis accepts Kays advances, and thirteen months later (lots of superstitious imagery here), they are still together--though with problems. Louis plants a sapling in honor of their love, and Kay tears it out of the ground in the middle of the night, afraid it will die an...Read the entire review



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