Falling from Grace( 1992)

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Rock singer John Mellencamp makes his screen and directorial debut in this story by "Lonesome Dove" author, Larry McMurtry. The story, not too separated from Mellencamp's real life, finds him as a country music star whose meanderings and philandering has thrown his life into turmoil. Returning to his native Indiana to try to reestablish a normal life. Instead he takes up with an old lover (Lenz), ignoring his loving wife (Hemingway), and duplicating the lifestyle of his womanizing father (Akins).

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John Mellencamp
Bud Parks
Mariel Hemingway
Alice Parks
Claude Akins
Speck Parks
Dub Taylor
Grandpa Parks
Kay Lenz
P.J. Parks
Larry Crane
Ramey Parks
Kate Noonan
Linda
Deirdre O'Connell
Sally Cutler
John Prine
John Prine

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Wed Aug 25 2021

_**Returning to your hometown after making it big...**_ ...that's what "Falling from Grace" is about. Released in 1992, John (Cougar) Mellencamp plays a country star, Bud, who tries to come home to Indiana, bringing his tall blond wife (Mariel Hemingway) and daughter. Unfortunately, his dad's a total jerk (Claude Akins) and his high school sweetheart (Kay Lenz) is married to his brother and having an affair with someone linked to both. It seems like the star just wants to take a break from the show business and hang with his buds and family, like in the old days, but melancholy settles in an...