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Actors: Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Ned Beaty
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Chattahoochee |
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Gary Oldman stars as Emmett Foley, a Korean War veteran struggling with emotional problems. Back home, Foley starts shooting up the neighborhood in hopes that the police would kill him. His suicide attempt fails and he is sent to the Chattahoochee mental hospital. His wife Mae Foley (Frances McDormand) visits him and she wants Emmett to say why he did what he did, but he can't. Emmett befriends fellow inmate Walker Benson (Dennis Hopper) and Walker tells him about all the deaths in the place. Emmet starts to document the beatings and deaths as he himself endures torture from the guards. After three years, Mae gives up on Emmett and is pregnant from another man, but sister Earlene (Pamela Reed) never quits on him. Walker and Emmett escape but Emmet goes back and suffers the consequences of his actions, getting electric shock treatment. His sister's efforts finally pay off when the Governer empowers a panel to investigate the brutalities in the mental hospital and Emmet is set free.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Chattahoochee |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- conduct in war
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- mental patient
Brain/Body not working?
- mental illness
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a fight for survival
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Misc setting
- mental hospital
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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