Frances

“Her story is shocking, disturbing, compelling... and true.”

Frances Farmer (Jessica Lange) is a Seattle high school student with a sharp tongue and a hunger for attention, raised by a mother, Lillian (Kim Stanley), who has already decided what her daughter will become. Graeme Clifford follows her into Hollywood in the 1930s, where her fame arrives quickly and sits badly with her. She keeps refusing to play the part everyone around her has written, and the film counts what each refusal takes from her.