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Citizen Jane
2009 · Film · 89 min
Directed by Armand Mastroianni
Jane Alexander's idyllic life in San Francisco is shattered when her beloved, elderly aunt is brutally murdered. But when her fiancé, Tom O'Donnell, becomes the main suspect, Jane must put aside her grief to aid the police before the chance at justice is lost forever.
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First, I will note that avoiding your old friends may be a good thing. People tend to hang out with people similar to them. If the way you were then in some way caused your failures, it might be for the best to leave the friends from that era behind. (I'm some pathetic bleeding heart idealist with financial problems who at some point realized all my close friends could be described the same way. I decided I better start making new friends. Blaming the world for not appreciating the importance of my ideals was not going to pay the bills. Those people are no longer part of my inner circle. My finances have been gradually improving.)
A couple of movies I like: "Beyond Rangoon" and "Citizen Jane". I am thinking both are based on true stories. Beyond Rangoon is basically about a woman who had something really tragic happen to her, is mired in depression and then travels someplace where people have much bigger problems and makes her peace with her losses. Citizen Jane is about a woman whose second husband robs her blind and murders her beloved aunt for the woman's money and about her search for justice. There is a very good scene where, after her house is foreclosed on, a friend offers to let her live with them in their nice upscale house so she doesn't have to move to some really crappy apartment. She replies "I got myself into this mess and I will get myself out." I have some pretty big problems I am working on resolving. It's a scene I think about often. I could use assistance from somewhere in terms of figuring out how on earth to do certain things but I really am not looking to be rescued. Getting rescued won't give me the skills I need to have lifelong financial security. "Give a man fish..." and all that.
Best of luck.
I also reacted to this. I think her comments are telling a close minded and anxious worldview. I also think that actors who are suspicious and anxious gets less interesting and lower paying jobs, unless they are in a circle of people who share their worldview.
So if Ally Sheedy had watched WarGames, and been a little more curious, she might not be acting against Meat Loaf in a direct-to-TV movie called "Citizen Jane" today.
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