Jolene
A free-spirited fifteen-year-old orphan named Jolene escapes from a mental institution, and spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love, heartbreak and freedom.
17 February 1971, Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
21 May 1986, Canada
August 10, 1987 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
27 November 1968, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
May 03, 2011
Cruelly, the display of sorrow never takes command, with most of the film an unsatisfactory soap opera that never seizes an illuminating essence.
November 01, 2010
Based on an E.L. Doctorow short story, Jolene is an apt example of how stories about women who are in abusive relationships can be turned into sexual exploitation.
October 29, 2010
So bad it's almost (but not quite) good, Dan Ireland's Jolene is an unusually elaborate and excruciatingly long vanity production...
October 31, 2010
Jolene's main themes, including the manipulation of youth, the fragility of love, and the suppression of individuality, try to carry the wonky dialogue into complex territory.
October 27, 2010
The movie has been through as many hurdles getting here as dear, sweet Jolene, but sometimes the most engaging movies are the ones worth waiting for.
November 04, 2010
Chastain proves near-heroic embodying Jolene's innate strength and incremental wisdom. Yet she also makes us understand how the heroine's wobbly resistance to manipulative characters is overwhelmed time and again.
October 27, 2010
One minute a guy's making Jolene patently false promises, the next she's getting sodomized on her wedding night.
October 29, 2010
Ms. Chastain digs deep. Surrendering to her character's smoky voice-over and disastrous judgment, the actress finds pockets of soul in a role that's part Jessica Rabbit, part Marilyn Monroe.
November 21, 2010
Chastain has long red hair, wide eyes, and an even wider smile. She is Jolene, of course, and she is appealing.
October 28, 2010
Chastain, an incandescent redhead with a heart-shaped face and round, shining eyes, does more justice to the part than it deserves.
November 04, 2010
More epic than it needs to be and less profound than it should be, "Jolene" remains a watchable excursion into human frailty and foibles.
October 31, 2010
Vapid, convoluted, tedious and too episodic despite Jessica Chastain's charismatic performance as the seductive, wounded, insecure and lonely Jolene.
