Cultures clash when a New York journalist (Jill Clayburgh) goes to the Louisiana bayou to do a story on her backwoods kinfolk. Ruth: Barbara Hershey. Grace: Martha Plimpton. Mike: Merritt Butrick. Tommy: John Philbin. Paul: Pruitt Taylor Vince. Mark: Don Swayze. Candy: Mare Winningham. Directed and co-written by Andrei Konchalovsky.