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The Heidi Chronicles
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303962245
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303962246
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: March 04, 1997
Running Time: 100 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1995
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Editorial Review:
Jamie Lee Curtis stars in this adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein's hit play The Heidi Chronicles. A lecture about ignored female painters by art historian Heidi Holland (Curtis) frames the decade-by-decade story of her life, starting with a high school dance in the mid-'60s and working its way through political rallies, feminist consciousness raising, gay rights, AIDS, the excess of the 1980s--it's a bit like Forrest Gump, but with a smart, self-deprecating woman instead of a dumb cheerful guy. Wasserstein traces a well-intentioned (if glib) arc of female experience through this time period, articulating the costs of independence as well as the glories. The important personal realizations come fast and thick, but Curtis, Tom Hulce, Kim Cattrall (in a wealth of era-appropriate wigs), and Peter Friedman do their best to keep The Heidi Chronicles from being a baby-boomer pop-up book. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - "I don't have a life. I'm expendable."
Heidi Holland, with her degrees from Vassar and Yale and a Fulbright in England under her belt, opens this film lecturing on art history, showing fine portraits of women, painted by women artists who are virtually unknown, though their work is as good as that of the male painters who dominated their ages. Using the art history "hook" into the question of women and their roles--as they see their roles, as men see women's roles, and as women search for happiness within these roles--director Paul ... Read More
Rating: - This is Wonderful!
What else i am going to say, i don't want to write a cranky review so please, admit this one, i am just going to say it's wonderful,great acting, story, funny and sad, it's WONDERFUL. Okay?
Rating: - Awesome
This movie has real and believable characters in Heidi (Curtis) and Peter (Hulce). It chronicles aspects of her life in such a way to really give the viewer a flavor of those 30 years and one woman's experiences that so many movies lack. It is a definate must have.
Rating: - Wonderfully acted drama. Well worth watching for all.
Jamie Lee Curtis proves her ability to truly carry a major work in "The Heidi Chronicles." Spanning three decades in the life of Curtis' Heidi, this film deals with the kind of real situations that people face with none of the unreal extraordinary circumstances that other films feel a need to drag in. Occasionally overly sappy or maudlin (can't we have at least ONE movie with a gay character who DOESN'T deal with a "close friend" dying of AIDS?
Hulce is terrific in the ... Read More
Rating: - Get the kleenex ready....
A heartfelt movie....chronicling the life a woman who has had her ups and downs, and manages to carry on with life and live it to its fullest. Jaime Lee Curtis ("True Lies") is terrific, as well as Tom Hulce ("Amadeus").
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