Drama

Chattahoochee

Hemdale Film Corporation

Hemdale

United States of America

United Kingdom

English

Gary Oldman

Dennis Hopper

Frances McDormand

Pamela Reed

Matt Craven

William De Acutis

Gary Klar

Lee Wilkof

William Newman

Richard Portnow

Timothy Scott

Ned Beatty

M. Emmet Walsh

Whitey Hughes

Wilbur Fitzgerald

Yvonne Denise Mason

Ralph Pace

Wesley Mann

Tim Monich

Laurens Moore

Mary Moore

Peggy Beasley

F. Drucilla Brookshire

Dorothy L. Grissom Hardin

David Fitzsimmons

Gary Bullock

David Dwyer

Robert Gravel

Marc Clement

John Brasington

Jim E. Quick

C.K. Bibby

Bob Hannah

George Nannarello

Ed Grady

Kevin Barber

James Culclasure

Shane Bailey

Kevin Campbell

E. Pat Hall

Jerry Campbell

Roger Jackson

Suzi Bass

Jill Rankin

F. Douglas McDaniel

Chris Robertson

Bill Collins

Bud Davis

Michael Easler

Randy Randolph

Kathryn Cobb

Jim Gloster

Charles Lawlor

Traber Burns

Kristi Frankenheimer

Perry Simpson

Joe Loy

Wallace Merck

Don Wayne Bass

Mykel Mariette

Raul Apartella

B.J. Koonce

Mick Jackson

Celeste Lee

Faye Schwab

Pat Tagliaferro

Ray Bivins

Don Fairservice

Aaron Schwab

Joseph T. Garrity

Sharon 'Mae' West

Andrew Dunn

John E. Keane

John Daly

Derek Gibson

Mindy Marin

Sue Baden-Powell

Theresa K. Stone

Philip Alan Waters

Richard O. Helmer

Kathleen M. Courtney

Cathy Mickel Gibson

Ed White

Mary Nelson

Peter Bond

Michelle Johnson

Dana Zaloom

Tona Hill

Joe Gilbride

J. Stephen Buck

Jim Schwalm

David Buckley

Gandhi Bob Arrollo

Michael Hanes

Jolly Dale

Karen Patch

Douglas A. Raine

Dennis Scott

Phil Dupont

Kenneth C. Mantlo

Jill Bennett

Shari Griffin

Kimberley Carleton

Gerry Humphreys

Tommy Dorsett

Dick Lewsey

Jonathan Frankel

Emma Hindley

Richard Hiscott

Dean Humphreys

Charlie Peterson

James Cresson

Melinda Sue Gordon

Well, I don't reckon I'm a hero. Sure don't feel like one. I just did what I could. One thing at a time. Step by step. 

Chattahoochee is directed by Mick Jackson and written by James Cresson (as James Hicks). It stars Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Francis McDormand, Pamela Reed, Ned Beatty and M. Emmet Walsh. Music is by John E. Keane and cinematography by Andrew Dunn.

In 1955 Florida, Korean veteran Emmett Foley (Oldman) has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison. Here he witnesses patients being abused and used. 

One landed in the cuckoo's nest.

Intense incarceration based tale, Chattahoochee suffers due to a cliché riddled screenplay that can't hit the upper echelons of pics dealing with the "mismanagement" of mental health patients. Foley's attempts to expose the nightmarish conditions at the facility he is imprisoned in, keeps the viewer interested, as does his burgeoning friendship with Benson (Hopper) and the crashing of his relationship with the girl he loves outside (McDormand).

Ultimately, it's well performed by the principals, but staid in writing and direction to the point you end up hankering for the "greats" of the genre made previously. 6/10

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