Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau, Audra Lindley, Andra Akers, Gwen Welles. Originally released as a motion picture in 1985. Based on the novel "Desert of the heart" by Jane Rule. Features: audio commentary from 2007 featuring director Donna Deitch; new conversation between Deitch and actor Jane Lynch; new conversation between Deitch, Elswit, and production designer Jeannine Oppewall about the film's visual style; new interviews with actors Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau; excerpt from documentary "Fiction and other truths : a film about Jane Rule" (1995) about the author of "Desert of the heart" ; Booklet contains an essay by critic B. Ruby Rich.
Summary:
Set in the 1950s, a repressed English professor goes to Reno for a quick divorce and while waiting for her papers to finalize, has a passionate affair with a young woman.
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