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    Ironweed (1987)

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    Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep both deliver tour-de-force performances as drunken Depression-era drifters plagued by their pasts.

    Francis (Nicholson) is haunted by memories of the events that led to his current state of degradation – most tragically the accidental death of his baby son.

    Bag-lady Helen (Meryl Streep) sees hope in his survival, but Hector Babenco’s film (based on William Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel) is a grim odyssey with only the strong performances of Oscar-nominees Nicholson and Streep to sustain it.

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    Francis Phelan
    Jack Nicholson
    Helen Archer
    Meryl Streep
    Annie Phelan
    Carroll Baker
    Billy Phelan
    Michael O’Keefe
    Peg Phelan
    Diane Venora
    Oscar Reo
    Fred Gwynne
    Rudy
    Tom Waits
    Harold Allen
    Nathan Lane
    Katrina
    Margaret Whitton
    Pee Wee
    Jake Dengel

    Director
    Hector Babenco

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