Sordid Lives Movie Review 2000

Shores adapted his play but the comedy goes flat before the finale. Texas matriarch Peggy dies (under scandalous circumstances) and her dysfunctional family goes into hyperdrive. There's proper daughter Latrelle (Bedelia) who can't accept that her actor son Ty (Geiger) is gay, probably because her own brother--known only as Brother Boy (Jordan)--is a drag queen confined to a mental institution. But brassy sister LaVonda (Walker) still thinks he should come to the funeral. And there's Aunt Sissy (Grant) and G.W. (Bridges), who was having an affair with Peggy, and his wife Noleta (Burke), who's LaVonda's best friend and...it just kinda goes on and on.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 111 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Funerals, Adapted from a Play, Gays, Adultery, Sanity Check, Family Comedy

Screenplay

Del Shores

Cast

Bonnie Bedelia, Beth Grant, Delta Burke, Ann Walker, Leslie Jordan, Beau Bridges, Kirk Giger, Rosemary Alexander, Olivia Newton-John

Cinematography

Max CiVon

Director

Del Shores

Music

George S. Clinton