Blue Sky is a 1994 film which tells the story of an Army officer whose outspokenness and his wife's mental illness have made him a outcast to the Army.

The movie was adapted by Rama Laurie Stagner, Arlene Sarner and Jerry Leichtling from a story by Rama Laurie Stagner. It was directed by Tony Richardson and was his last film. The original music score was composed by Jack Nitzsche.

It stars Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Locane and Chris O'Donnell.

Lange won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film.

The movie was completed in 1991, but because of a bankruptcy by the original studio, Orion Pictures, it sat on the shelf until 1994.

Plot summary

In the early 1960s, Major Hank Marshall and his wife Carly are a military couple whose marriage unravels from the pressures of his job and her mental instability. Hank is a nuclear engineer who favors underground nuclear testing, and at odds with his superiors over the wisdom of open-air detonations. Carly is a free spirit spiralling into a dangerous depression, and slowly being suffocated by domestic torpor and encroaching age. The family's move from Hawaii to an isolated base in Alabama alarms the couple's oldest daughter, Alex, and sends Carly into an affair with the base commander, Vince Johnson.

Main cast

Actor	Role
Jessica Lange	Carly Marshall
Tommy Lee Jones	Hank Marshall
Powers Boothe	Vince Johnson
Carrie Snodgress	Vera Johnson
Amy Locane	Alex Marshall
Chris O'Donnell	Glenn Johnson

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