This acting and directing debut from rock star John Mellencamp had only a brief run in theaters in early 1993, and it's easy to see why: FALLING FROM GRACE is an unusually downbeat story for the popular rocker to choose as his bridge to a different medium.
Mellencamp plays singer Bud Parks, returning to his hometown of Oak City, Indiana, for his grandfather's eightieth birthday. Bud has brought his glamorous "California wife," Alice (Mariel Hemingway), and young daughter to meet the Parks clan, and what a dysfunctional brood it is: there's sister
Sally (Deidre O'Connell), who's married to the hard-drinking, frequently absent Mitch Cutler (folksinger John Prine, ...
Released:
1992
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins