The Turning (1992 film)

The Turning
In the foreground, a woman unbuttons her blouse. In the background, a man stands with his arms across his chest, a gun in his right hand.
Film poster
Directed byL.A. Puopolo
Written by
  • L.A. Puopolo
  • Chris Ceraso
Based onHome Fires Burning by Chris Ceraso
Produced by
  • William B. O'Boyle
  • L.A. Puopolo
Starring
CinematographyJ. Michael McClary
Edited byLesley Topping
Music byHerb Pilhofer
Production
companies
  • Puopolo Productions
  • White Deer Productions
Distributed byPhaedra Cinema
Release date
  • May 2, 1992 (1992-05-02)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Turning (alternately titled Home Fires Burning, Pocahontas or Pocahontas, Virginia)[1][2][3] is a 1992 American independent drama/thriller film[1][4] directed by L.A. Puopolo, based on the play Home Fires Burning by Chris Ceraso.[5]

It is the film debut of actress Gillian Anderson.[4] Both she and co-star Raymond J. Barry later appeared in the TV series The X-Files, although they did not have any scenes together.

The film was shot on location in Pocahontas, Virginia and the neighboring communities of Abbs Valley, Virginia and Nemours, West Virginia. It was released on home video in 1997.[4]

Plot

After four years away, Cliff Harnish (Michael Dolan) returns to his hometown of Pocahontas, Virginia in a bid to stop his parents' divorce. Unsuccessful, he finds that his mother, Martha (Tess Harper), has turned to alcohol while his father, Mark (Raymond J. Barry), is seeing a woman called Glory (Karen Allen). Cliff also has an awkward reunion with his ex-girlfriend, April (Gillian Anderson).

Desperate to bring his parents back together, Cliff poses as a delivery driver to gain entry to Glory's house. Inside, he reveals his true identity and threatens Glory, calling her a "homewrecker" and ordering her to break off her relationship with his father. During this confrontation, it becomes clear that Cliff has formed white supremacist and neo-Nazi views. Disturbed by Cliff's actions, Mark disowns him.

Later, Cliff breaks into Glory's house while Mark is present and holds Glory at knifepoint, threatening to hurt her unless Mark – to whom he passes Glory's gun – shoots him first. Unable to kill his son, Mark fires into the wall behind Cliff and Glory. Glory seizes the gun and aims it at Cliff but Mark dissuades her from shooting him. Mark forces Cliff to drop the knife and tells him that he must learn to live with the pain of his parents' divorce. Mark and Cliff leave the house together.

Cast

Production

Filming took place in November 1991. Shooting locations included Pocahontas and Abbs Valley in Tazewell County, Virginia, as well as Nemours, West Virginia.[6][7]

Critical response

Michael Dolan has described the film as "not very good ... My agent saw [it] and wouldn't talk to me for months."[4]

Reviewing The Turning at the time of its original 1992 release, David Stratton of Variety commented that the film "still smacks of the theater. Though it packs an undeniable emotional punch, [it] comes across as overwritten and contrived as a cinema experience." He described the ending as "an anticlimax, since the audience has been led to anticipate an act of cathartic violence that never occurs." However, he praised Dolan's "genuinely scary character" as well as the "strong performances" of the other cast members.[8] Ray Pride of the Chicago Reader wrote that despite its "pictorial and emotional strengths", the film is "too rooted in its theatrical origins to be truly memorable." He also criticised the film for its characters' "unconvincing" insights and its "distracting" musical score.[9]

In 1997, Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a negative review, writing that "at every turn, The Turning is ridiculously vague. We get no real idea of what Martha and Mark did – or what happened to Cliff during his absence – that has turned him into a psychopath clutching madly at 'traditional family values.'" He also commented that Puopolo "directs his cast as if they were giving a stage performance, which means that the realism of the film's location not only ensures the artificiality of the entire endeavor but also shows up the many flaws in the basic material as well."[10] In a negative review of the home video release, Dave Nuttycombe of the Washington City Paper called the film a "tiredly talky Southern Gothic drama".[11]

Controversy

The film features a sex scene between Dolan and Anderson's characters, and was shot while Anderson was still a 19-year-old student in drama school. After the film was bought by British film distributor David Lewis in 1996, his company Unique Films released it on home video nationwide. By then appearing in the TV series The X-Files, Anderson hired lawyers in an attempt to stop the film's release. The British tabloid press, which described the film as a "B movie", reported that Anderson had tried to buy it back for "large sums of money" without success. They described the scene as "semi-topless". According to Dolan, the scene was shot at 4 A.M. after a long day and both he and Anderson were exhausted.

Anderson had a clause in her contract stating that her breasts could not be exposed in any scenes.[12][13][14] Despite the controversy, the Orange County Register judged the scene to be "fleeting" and argued that the film "deserves better than to serve as a salacious footnote to a television show."[5] Nuttycombe called the scene "gratuitous" and "irrelevant".[11]

In 2002, Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club, who described The Turning as an "unconvincing melodrama", argued that the film had been re-released purely for the "one brief love scene featuring Anderson, much tamer than the video box's lurid cover would suggest."[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Home Fires Burning (1992)". bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 30, 2018. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  2. ^ "Pocahontas". film.virginia.org. Virginia Film Office. Archived from the original on February 18, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  3. ^ "New Film Starts". Variety. November 10, 1991. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d Gaines, Allison (September 19, 1997). "Gillian Anderson's First Role". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on October 25, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "The Turning talks itself out of making some real points // Review: Excessive dialogue is but one of the deficiencies of this tale of family breakdown and fringe violence". Orange County Register. May 2, 1997.
  6. ^ Rose, Andrea (November 19, 1991). "Cameras Rolling: Location Shots under way in Pocahontas". Bluefield Daily Telegraph. Vol. 96, no. 323. p. 1. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  7. ^ "The Turning: Pocahontas Movie Viewing set this Month". Bluefield Daily Telegraph. April 12, 1995. p. B-4. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  8. ^ Stratton, David (May 29, 1992). "Home Fires Burning". Variety. Archived from the original on July 1, 2018. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  9. ^ Pride, Ray (October 15, 1992). "This Week at the Chicago Film Festival: A Day-by-Day Critical Guide". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  10. ^ Thomas, Kevin (May 2, 1997). "Vague Turning Moves from the Stage to the Big Screen". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on September 21, 2015. Retrieved July 1, 2018.
  11. ^ a b Nuttycombe, Dave (October 24, 1997). "The Truth Is Right Here". Washington City Paper. Archived from the original on July 7, 2018. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  12. ^ "Scully's X Cert Files – Exclusive: Calling Agent Mulder ... The Naked Truth is Out There and Your Partner's Trying to Ban It". Sunday Mirror. London, UK. November 3, 1996.
  13. ^ "X-Files Gill's Naked Romp". The Mirror. London, UK. April 29, 1997.
  14. ^ "X-Files Star Topless in Film". The Cincinnati Post. April 30, 1997.
  15. ^ Phipps, Keith (March 29, 2002). "The Turning". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Archived from the original on July 1, 2018. Retrieved July 1, 2018.

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