Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek and Jessica Lange in the same film seems too good to be true. And so, in a way, it proves. Even though the ladies are all as luminous as you'd expect (as three sisters living on the edge of madness with an inheritance of same) this anecdote is far too slight for the talents involved. The sisters, all eccentric and subject to violent outbursts in which they hardly know what they are doing, are brought together again by the terminal illness of their grandfather (Hurd Hatfield: Dorian Gray trying in vain to look ancient), but more urgently by the fact that the youngest, Babe (Spacek), has just shot her husband - leaving him close to death. Occasionally too dull even for these three to redeem, the film is glowingly, if faintly gloomily shot in colour by Dante Spinotti, and has some felicitous comic moments, mostly from Spacek. Overall, though, it doesn't amount to very much.


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