How Long Is “Violets Are Blue”?

This small-town romance may be trying to ride the coattails of the Big Chill that also featured Kevin Kline. Kline plays Henry here, and when the film opens he and his love Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek, wife of director Jack Fisk), are sitting together planning the future they will have. She will be a flight attendant and he will get a college degree. Yet when they part, so does their destiny. By a quirk of fate, Gussie starts taking photos for an in-flight magazine and ends up an ace photographer while Henry has stayed in their small town to run the newspaper after his dad died. When Gussie comes back for a vacation 15 years later the two old sweethearts find that the embers that burned so low over the last many years are heating up again. No one in the town is unaware of what is going on, and Gussie is in for a lecture from her dad while Henry hears it like it is from his wife. But will that change the course of their relationship?, Romance blooms for former high-school steadies (Sissy Spacek, Kevin Kline), although he's now married. Ruth: Bonnie Bedelia. Ralph: John Kellogg. Addy: Jim Standiford. Ethel: Augusta Dabney. Sara Mae: Kate McGregor-Stewart. Jack Fisk directed.