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Desert Bloom
1986 - PG - 1:43
RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video
Drama
Directed by Eugene Corr
Starring:
Jon Voight
JoBeth Williams
Ellen Barkin
Allen Garfield
Annabeth Gish
Set against the dawn of the Atomic Age in 1950's Las Vegas, Desert Bloom is a powerful human drama, painting an unforgettable portrait of a fmily struggling to unite in an increasingly frightening world. Jon Voight is Jack Chismore, a volatile war veteran, fighting to overcome his personal demons while holding his family together; JoBeth Williams is his wife Lily, torn between the needs of her family and a secret vice that threatens the very foundation of her marriage; Annabeth Gish is Rose, a delicate girl on the threshold of adolescence, struggling to understand the adults surrounding her. Into this turbulent household comes Lily's sister Starr (Ellen Barkin), a sexy divorcee who becomes the unwitting catalyst in an explosive chain-reaction that rocks the Chismore family as surely - and irrevocably - as the A-bomb testing in the nearby desert. Sensitively directed, brilliantly acted and superbly written, Desert Bloom is a compelling study of a family's survival - and triumph - in a swiftly changing world.
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