Frances is based on the true life story of hollywood actress Frances Farmer, Frances is played by Jessica Lange in the movie. Frances Farmer apparently liked to acted a little crazy some time and this “forced” her poor parents to put her in a mental institution. While in the mental institution the guards pimped her out to army and navy boys for extra cash according to Frances.
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Anglicised aristocrat arriving by boat at her cottage in an outfit worthy of Captain Hook. So vicious that he punches, drags and then rapes her with perfect indifference, Mr. Roth gives the sequence all the nastiness it requires. And Ms. Lange, who has occasional dazzling moments here, displays great dignity mixed with raw, barely contained emotion. It’s a scene that calls for cowboy justice, for the loner who avenges affronts and defends his loved ones’ honor.