Ironweed

Titolo originale: Ironweed
Regia: Héctor Babenco |
Anno: 1987
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma
Tag: forgiveness | loyalty | homelessness | drifter | accidental death | alcoholic | estranged father | haunted by the past | drunkenness | ghosts of the past | hobo | 1930s | living on the streets | missions | bums | albany, new york |
Cast: Jack Nicholson | Meryl Streep | Carroll Baker | Michael O'Keefe | Diane Venora | Fred Gwynne | Margaret Whitton | Tom Waits | Jake Dengel | Nathan Lane | James Gammon | Laura Esterman | Will Zahrn | Joe Grifasi | Hy Anzell | Bethel Leslie | Richard Hamilton | Black-Eyed Susan | Louise Phillips | Marjorie Slocum | Lena Spencer | Lola Pashalinski | Paul A. DiCocco Jr. | Priscilla Smith | James Dukas | Jared Swartout | Ted Levine | Martin Patterson | Terry O'Reilly | Michael O'Gorman | Frank Whaley | Jordan Valdina | Louis St. Louis | John Wright | Robin Wood-Chappelle | Nicole Weden | Peter Pryor | Duane Scholz | Matt McGrath | Lois Barden Stilley | Cori Irwin | Pamela Payton-Wright | Boris McGiver | Phyllis Gottung | James Yoham | Ean Egas | Nebraska Brace | Jeff Morris | William Duell | George Rafferty | Robert Manion | Pat Devane |

1938. Francis Phelan è un ex giocatore di baseball che da tempo, vagabondo senzatetto, vaga attraverso gli “States”. Insieme alla compagna Helen Archer, anch'essa derelitta, decide di tornare al natio paese, nei pressi di New York.