Anne Heche: disagreement with cinematographic success

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Anne Heche didn’t have much luck in her film career. The actor, who died this Friday at the age of 53 after being in a coma for a week after a car accident in Los Angeles, had the courage to star in a movie that was doomed to fail at that time. right. Frame-by-frame remake of Gus van Sant’s 1998 ‘Psychosis’.. in this mannerist re-creation of the classic Alfred Hitchcock, Shot according to the technical script of the original film, Heche took on the role of protagonist Janet Leigh, who died within half an hour of filming the famous shower sequence.

It was as well known as it was in the late 90’s. emotional partner of host and actress Ellen DeGenereswhom he married. After the breakup in 2000, there weren’t a few people in Hollywood who sided with DeGeneres and turned their backs on Heche. The actress was previously the partner of Steve Martin and later had a son in her marriage to Coleman Laffoon and another berry of her relationship with Canadian actor James Tupper. However, things went completely wrong in the cinema and she starred in uninteresting films after Van Sant’s film.

He made his television debut with the telenovela ‘Another World’ in the late 1980s. 1997 was already going to be a key year in cinema to intervene in five films, some of which had considerable repercussions: ‘suspense’ ‘Donnie Brasco’starring Johnny Depp as the wife of the undercover cop; disaster movie ‘volcano’forming a couple with Tommy Lee Jones; ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’, a ‘slasher’ with notable success; episodic telefilm ‘Subway Stories’, Starring in the story filmed by Ted Demme and ‘cigarette curtain’A political fiction comedy written by David Mamet. He had previously acted in single productions. ‘Wild side’ (1995), a mystery thriller directed by Donald Cammell with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto and starring Christopher Walken and Joan Chen: blonde Heche appeared here as Louise Brooks with her short, jet-black hair.

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He did ‘Psychosis’ in 1998 and co-starred with Harrison Ford in the romantic adventure comedy ‘Six Days and Nights’ and co-starred with Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates of the Van Sant version and Joaquin Phoenix in the film. ‘Back to paradise’ focused on the arrest of a young American for drug trafficking in Malaysia. But success was a temporary mirage, and Heche’s career gradually faded, film by film, until it was almost completely dissolved.

Still, he appeared in several episodes of its fourth season in a series of great depths. ‘Ally McBeal’and ‘The Third Miracle’ (1999) in leading or supporting roles, ‘prozac nation’ (2001), ‘John Q’ (2002) and ‘Birth’ (2004). Since then, many bland TV movies that have always been a livelihood for those who can’t establish themselves in Hollywood, have appeared in many serials and some interesting films such as ‘Rampart’ (2011), a police remedy. James Elroy. Heche had recently shot the horror movie ‘Full ride’.

He has also directed some films for television.The documentary ‘Ellen DeGeneres: American summer documentary’ and one of the three episodes of ‘Playing on the Border’ is like a movie with mystery and sci-fi elements and a feminist expression.

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