"Violets Are Blue" is a ho hum love story involving hairy chested Henry Squires (Kevin Kline) and freckled Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek).
We begin when both are high school sweethearts in the seaside toen of Ocean Falls, Maryland "frolicking" on the beach. Henry is about to go off to Boston to school and Gussie (Augusta) takes off for parts unknown. Fast forward 14 years and we find Gussie as a successful internationally famous photographer and Henry running the local newspaper, marries to Ruth (Bonnie Bedelia) with a teen age son Addy (Jim Standiford).
Gussie returns home for a vacation, gets involved in a sail boat race with her father Ralph (John Kellogg) and spots Henry on another boat. Of course they meet up later and after a brief hesitation they get back together ending up "frolicking" on the beach as they had done previously..
Eventually Henry agrees to take a job with Gussie writing up her photographing assignments. Henry is forced to choose between his family and his true love. In a tear filled climax, Henry makes his choice and..........................
That's it folks. Since both Kline and Spacek do not change their appearance between their high school days and the present, I found it hard to relate to the passage of 14 years. In one instance they are young lovers and the next it's 14 unexplained years later. Kline still has his hairy chest and Spacek her multitude of freckles, unchanged.
We begin when both are high school sweethearts in the seaside toen of Ocean Falls, Maryland "frolicking" on the beach. Henry is about to go off to Boston to school and Gussie (Augusta) takes off for parts unknown. Fast forward 14 years and we find Gussie as a successful internationally famous photographer and Henry running the local newspaper, marries to Ruth (Bonnie Bedelia) with a teen age son Addy (Jim Standiford).
Gussie returns home for a vacation, gets involved in a sail boat race with her father Ralph (John Kellogg) and spots Henry on another boat. Of course they meet up later and after a brief hesitation they get back together ending up "frolicking" on the beach as they had done previously..
Eventually Henry agrees to take a job with Gussie writing up her photographing assignments. Henry is forced to choose between his family and his true love. In a tear filled climax, Henry makes his choice and..........................
That's it folks. Since both Kline and Spacek do not change their appearance between their high school days and the present, I found it hard to relate to the passage of 14 years. In one instance they are young lovers and the next it's 14 unexplained years later. Kline still has his hairy chest and Spacek her multitude of freckles, unchanged.