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Raggedy Man is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jack Fisk released in USA on 18 september 1981 with Sissy Spacek
Raggedy Man (1981)
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Add to a movie listRaggedy Man is a 1981 film starring Eric Roberts and Sissy Spacek. It was filmed in Lockhart, Texas. The story is about people in the small Texas town of Gregory during World War II.
Raggedy Man is the title of a novel by William D. Wittliff and Sara Clark, published in 1979, on which the movie of the same title is based.
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Texas, 1944. Nita, une femme divorcée, vit avec ses deux enfants. Elle travaille comme opératrice téléphonique pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille. Elle fait la rencontre d’un marin nommé Teddy. Sa relation avec le jeune homme va faire parler, dans cette petite ville où tout le monde se connaît...Actors
Sissy Spacek
(Nita)
Eric Roberts
(Teddy)
Sam Shepard
(Bailey)
William Sanderson
(Calvin)
Tracey Walter
(Arnold)
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