SnoReptilePlenty
Memorable, crazy movie
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
leplatypus
Again a movie in which Jenny plays a fragile disturbed sibling, who feels inferior compared her successful sister… If this rivalry is true among a family and appeals particularly to me, this time, it didn't catch me… Usually, I don't like stories featuring a self destructing and lunatic character so here between booze and narcotics, I had enough… A bit like her famous sister, it's nearly impossible to have deep and meaningful moments with such people because they are just unreliable and have the super power to drag all their helping hands with them! It's sad to recognize but from my experience and as shown in the movie, only medical professionals people can deal with them! It's indeed after her rehabilitation that a kind Jenny appears and not the crazy one who hides under her dark make-up! This new beginning is the more interesting moment of the movie but it's also already the end. If the songs are much better than the pitiful Begin Again with Keira and Jenny really excels as a singer, at the end, it's for me a difficult movie to watch so I don't think I would repeat the experience ever again!
Susansgoldens
When I first saw this movie, Georgia, I was blown away by JJL's performance. Have always enjoyed Mare Winningham, she was excellent, as usual, as Georgia. I don't think there are many actors who could have played the role of Sadie, as layered as JJL did. When I first saw this movie I did a little bit in Internet research. I found out that the movie was written by JJL's mom, and I assume her daughter contributed.All of your previous comments are dead on; JJL should have received a Best Actress Oscar for her work, the contrasting musical styles and, the ever present sibling rivalry, not only in the style each character sings, or screams, as Sadie does, repeating the same word or sentiment over and over but how they live their lives.
Petri Pelkonen
Sadie Flood wants to be a famous singer like her big sister Georgia.But she has her own demons, and she seeks comfort from drugs and alcohol.Georgia (1995) is a music drama directed by Ulu Grosbard.Jennifer Jason Leigh gives a strong performance in the lead playing the troubled singer Sadie Flood.She is the heart and soul of this film, as her on-screen sister Mare Winningham said, but yet only Mare received an Academy Award nomination.Leigh's mother Barbara Turner wrote the film.Ted Levine plays the part of Jake.Max Perlich plays Axel Goldman.John Doe portrays Bobby.John C. Reilly is Herman, the drummer.The late singer Jimmy Witherspoon plays Trucker.The most memorable moment in this movie must be when Sadie sings Van Morrison's Take Me Back with that Janis Joplin voice.If you have some time, don't miss this independent film.
Imaginary-friend
Georgia is a stark and harrowing exposition into the relationship of two sisters, Sadie played by Jennifer Jason Leigh and the eponymous Georgia played by Mare Winningham (best supporting actress nominee 1996). The film follows Sadie, a young woman trapped within her envy and aspirations to achieve the success, and more importantly recognition, of her older sister Georgia, a revered folk and country singer in the pacific north west of America. In her pursuit of these desires however, she tears at her tenuous relationship with her sister and all those around her. It seems only her contagious beauty and vulnerability keep the people she hurts close to her, as we follow her through smoky clubs and bars, cheap motels and onwards into oblivion.Georgia is often a trying film on the viewer, as its director, the Belgium born Ulu Grosbard pushes mainstream codes of cinematic language, and at the same time, deals with a central character who is often caustic, abrasive and unredeeming. That said, Jennifer Jason Leigh's visceral portrayal of Sadie Flood is utterly compelling and inspired. Indeed, her performance truly brings alive a disaffected character wrought by insecurity, isolation, depression and self-loathing; all culminating in an itinerant and bohemian lifestyle of club singing, alcoholism, heroin addiction and disillusionment.Worthy of note also are the stellar performances of the support cast, notably Georgia's loving husband played by Ted Levine, Sadie's doting and tortured partner played by Max Perlich and Herman the drug-addled band-mate of Sadie's, performed by the ubiquitous character actor John C Reilly. Another great feature of this film is the soundtrack, and in many ways this film could be considered a musical. Contributions come from Van Morrison, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Tom Waits and Otis Redding, many of whom were active in the music to the film. John Doe and the late Jimmy Witherspoon for example, both acclaimed recording artists in their own right, act and sing in the film. Indicative of the soundtrack's integral contribution to the overall film, please note the cover of 'this magical place is more than it seems' from the Wizard of Oz score, as Sadie more so than anything wants to click her heels together and get back to the old house, back home.In summation, this film will appeal to people who drink too much, people who tell me that it's a sin to know and feel too much within, which according to Bob Dylan many claim to live by and i concur; those with a penchant for '90s Seattle, rock and roll and dark character studies into alcoholism, thwarted ambition and pervasive despair.
