Georgia (1995 film)

Georgia is a 1995 American independent film starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham. In the film, Leigh played Sadie Flood, a punky barroom singer who has a complicated, jealous but loving relationship with her older sister, Georgia, played by Winningham. Georgia is a successful, talented and welladjusted folk music singer and a happily married mother of two. Sadie is passionate but selfdestructive and untalented. While she seeks fame, she destroys herself through drug abuse. Although the movie focuses largely on Sadie, it was apparently titled Georgia because Sadie defines her own identity so much through her older sister.

Georgia was released in the U.S. on December 8, 1995. It received a positive critical reception. Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today described the film as a painful though sadly humorous portrait of sisterhood, and Roger Ebert said Georgia was a complex, deeply knowledgeable story about a truly lost soul and her downward spiral in his 3.54star review. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said Georgia is Leighs highwire act, and her fierce, funny, exasperating and deeply affecting portrayal commands attention.citation needed James Berardinelli of Reel Views praised it as a tour de force for Leigh... there are times when its uncomfortable to watch this performance because its so powerful, adding Georgia doesnt possess an amazingly original narrative, but what distinguishes this picture is the depth of the characters and the amazing power with which the two leads breathe life into them.citation needed Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said Leighs exceptional performance tears you apart weve never seen anything like it before, adding that Georgia is not an easy film, but in the American independent arena, it outperforms everything in sight. It was also voted one of 1995s ten best films by Interview, New York Post, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Daily News and ABC Radio Network.citation needed Jennifer Jason Leigh was voted the years Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle and at the Montreal World Film Festival, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and was widely predicted to receive her first Academy Award nomination for the role.citation needed Surprisingly though, it was Mare Winningham who actually went on to receive an Oscar nomination as well as an Independent Spirit Award and Screen Actors Guild nomination as Best Supporting Actress, while Leigh was controversially overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, much to the disappointment of critics and fans. Speaking to MetroActive magazine, Winningham said I felt incredibly hon

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