True Women
True Women Review
I love this movie. Its one of those you can watch multiple times and enjoy it just on in the background. Angelina Jolie is so cute in this.
I don’t know about the historical accuracy as another reviewer noted but I do not think this movie is choppy. It covers a very long period of time (lifetime, actually) so it covers a lot. Again, Angelina is adorable. I got a lot of laughs from her character. Feel good, uplifting movie without gratuitous sex and language.
Its nice to have about 2 hours of strong, capable very human women with good men in the mix.
I hope I don’t steer anyone astray with my review. As a reference point, the other two movies I can think of that I can enjoy having on in the background (or actually sit and watch again) on any weekend are: Selena and Gone With The Wind… if that helps.
I love True Women. 
True Women Overview
SPANNING 5 DECADES FROM THE TEXAS REVOLUTION THROUGH THE CIVILWAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND BEYOND IS A STORY OF LOVE, FRIENDSHIP,SURVIVAL AND TRIUMPH.
True Women Specifications
This well-acted, sweeping herstorical epic focuses on the lives of three women, beginning in 1853. China Beach’s Dana Delany is Sarah, the family matriarch, whose little sister Euphemia (a delightful and empathetic Tina Majorino) has been living with her best friend, Georgia (beautiful Rachael Leigh Cook), and Georgia’s parents (Michael York, Julie Carmen) on a large, bucolic Georgia plantation. After the sisters’ father dies, Sarah’s husband, upstanding Texas Ranger Bartlett (Powers Boothe), takes “Pheemy” down to Peach Tree, Texas, to live with him and Sarah.
Pheemy and Georgia begin a correspondence chronicling their divergent lives. As Pheemy and her family work their farm and battle Santa Ana and hostile Indians, indulged Georgia is coming to terms with her family’s greatest secret: she is one-quarter Native American. Majorino and Cook are excellent in their demanding roles and offer a challenge for their adult counterparts (Annabeth Gish as Pheemy, Angelina Jolie as Georgia). This film, originally a TV miniseries, is an earnest attempt to depict the difficult–and often tragic–role women were compelled to endure during this historically rich but phenomenally difficult time. True Women has plenty of action, but relationships, politics, and grim reality are the true focus, as issues of sexuality, prejudice, human rights, and of course slavery are eagerly examined in the frontier setting. The sensitive should be forewarned: it seems like there is a death every five minutes. –N.F. Mendoza
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