Georgia

Georgia is one fine movie. Or maybe two or three fine movies.... Best of all, Georgia is a music movie, and a good one. [12 Jan 1996]

Directed by Ulu Grosbard, who has never done a better job of filling the screen with superb acting, and shows great ingenuity at interweaving music with other aspects of the story.

Harrowing and heartfelt, with knockout performances by a pair of fine actresses.

On the one hand, Georgia is extremely painful; on the other, there's joy in the enterprise. [12 Dec 1995]

Written with an acute ear by Barbara Turner (Leigh's mother) and directed by Ulu Grosbard, it's a resonant, grittily specific film.

It's still a good [movie], with its self-contained world of concert arenas and smoky clubs and sad, weird people who linger in the mind.

It's a startling, exhausting spectacle - and, like the rest of Leigh's performance, very, very bad.