Julie Johnson

Why this movie never hit the big screen, I'll never know. Perhaps because Courtney Love was having problems by the time is was released, or most likely the reason is the subject matter - bisexuality. Lili Taylor plays a housewife who is unhappy in her marriage to a very chauvanistic husband and Courtney Love plays her best friend. Lili's character and Courtney begin an intimate relationship which gives her the strength to leave her overbearing husband, must to the unhappiness of her two adolescent children. Soon, their relationship becomes obvious to their friends, spouses, and children and the pressure begins to mount. Their children are teased about their mother's orientation, and Courtney, fearing the social ostracism that she is enduring, has to make a decision about whether to stay in the relationship or return to her own husband. The outcome is a bit of a surprise.The acting by Ms.Taylor and Ms. Love is wonderfully convincing, with Lili Taylor's character being the stronger of the two, not because of actinig skills - Courtney showed her acting chops again, but because her character was simply written stronger.This is a wonderful and thought-provoking movie. Highly recommended.

This lesbian drama features the physical attraction between a married woman who has a crush on her best friend who encourages her to leave her abusive and uncaring husband and not cave in to societal pressure and norms of maintaining an unsatisfactory marriage for the sake of her children, in a society where marriage for the welfare of the children constitutes a centrality of attitude in conventional society with the abused wife finding herself caught in the vicious cycle of ill treatment by her spouse, but concludes on a less than satisfactory note of her friend spurning her advances when she discovers her best friend's lesbian tendencies and feelings for her.If you're into lesbian dramas featuring women who find themselves unaccountably attracted to one another in defiance of societal norms and pondering the notion of leaving their uncaring husbands go instead for Elena Undone and A Perfect Ending.

As a fan of flop movies that decompose the mythical basis of American fantasy, I liked the movie Julie Johnson as a Jesus shaves me version of Al Gore as a silent partner of the Clinton White House. Instead of being a Love Story, it is sentimental kiss and try not to tell of high school girl dreams of having a different life than the way everybody else is disguised as a normal person. Courtney Love can see the logic of the social party scene represented by Sally, who has large gatherings in which the husbands of Julie and Claire see more of their old friends than Claire does after she lives in Julie's house.There s a checkbook scene in the movie in which the youngest kid knows that to balance a checkbook, you add up the deposits and subtract the amounts that have been spent. Congress had a budget for what it could control, but LBJ had some huge emergency appropriations and entitlements were being paid according to automatic formulas the Congress could raise rates one year to get voter support, then raise employee contributions and the maximum salary subject to fica the next year to hope some future year would balance. Al Gore might be a symbol for lavish spending to neutralize the carbon footprint of the global economy. In 2000, the power pornography wanted social betterment of the government by bushmaster party animalism more than an idiot savant like Al Gore and Julie Johnson obsessed with computers and chaos theory. Knowing an algorithm for fractals and encryption did not please arty thinking as much as special weapons and secrecy.A book Dispatches mentions boys wiped out by 17 years of watching movies going to Vietnam to get their pimples shot off. Al Gore called his army tour of Vietnam a public service. The movie Heaven's Gate about Wyoming in 1892 like a hagfish view of decomposing the conflict between the stock breeders association with cattle on the open range and settlers homesteading land with nothing to eat but the grazing cattle was a commercial flop, but it was able to produce an emotional tie with people who knew how much Jesus shaves the truth to serve those in power, for such fans Julie Johnson might produce the gender issue social battle memories of sexual attempts to escape social slime which clogged the gills of the Claire character at the end of a movie that made her silent partner of things she was not into wholeheartedly. Remember the gore.

I'm no big fan of gay or lesbian films. I only bought this DVD bcuz I'm a huge Lili Taylor admirer. So i wasn't expecting very much from it. But while watching this movie I couldn't believe my eyes how great and touching this story was. I especially liked the scene with Lili and Courtney sitting in park, and yearning to touch each other but they couldn't do it and instead they touched themselves in their minds. Another great drama point was Courtneys and Lilis alienation because of Lilis high devotion to her studies. I highly recommend this DVD to anyone who loves great Drama. you won't be disappointed.

I am so mad I wasted money on this DVD. The quality was horrible! Movies made over 40 years ago look better than this on DVD. It was filmy and snowy and looked worse than if it had been dubbed off some old VHS tape. I can't believe someone made a DVD out of this movie and it looks like this! I don't blame Amazon or the seller because they didn't put this movie on DVD but whoever did should be ashamed. The quality was so bad I had to throw it away after a day of having it. I didn't get close to finishing the movie because I couldn't stand how terrible the picture looked. Just because a movie is low budget doesn't mean the quality has to stink!

I do recommend this movie; little bit of romance and yet, not enough because it's so realistic in the obstacles we face when someone you fall for is afraid of coming out. Movie is more about a journey of a woman who's more than she ever thought she was or gives herself credit for. Love that about this story. Still, it's sweet...very real. Love both leading ladies- great actresses!

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Good movie

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Julie erscheint in den ersten Minuten dieser Geschichte als ein Gegenstand, der nur als solcher genutzt wird. Sie muss funktionieren, so wie es ihr Ehemann Rick will. Er, ihr Sohn Frankie und die überhebliche Tochter - Mischa Barton - bestimmen ihr Leben. Niemand, auch nicht ihre Freundin Claire, weiß womit sich Julie heimlich " fortbildet ". Die dummgeglaubte Hausfrau begeistert sich immer mehr für Computerarbeit und Naturwissenschaften. Ein Werbeflyer der für schulische Weiterbildung wirbt, verändert ihr ganzen Leben. Zusammen mit Claire sucht sie diese Veranstaltung auf und findet im Dozenten Miranda einen Fürsprecher.Dann geht es auch schon los. Rick, der alles blockt, fliegt aus dem gemeinsamen Haus raus. Clarie, die ihren Mann Mike - wenn auch nur kurz - verläßt zieht bei Julie ein. Beide finden zueinander, die Kinder entfernen sich jedoch langsam, weil Gerüchte ihr Leben erschweren.Die Geschichte wird gefühlvoll dargestellt und positiv überraschen wird hier Frau Love als Claire

Great Characters. Shows how being gay is not for the light of heart.Lesbians meet different challenges than gay men. If you get through being out of the closet and assert who you are, there a lifetime of daily small and big challenges one meets. Insidious challenges, they become like a second skin.