Movies
April, 1985
Diane Keaton channels her flakiness into a subtle, first-class performance as Mrs. Soffel (MGM/UA), which also marks a quiet triumph for Australian director Gillian Armstrong, proving here that her fine feminist saga, My Brilliant Career (1978), was no flash-in-the-pan success. The true story of a prison warden's wife who scandalized turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh when she left her husband and children and ran off with two condemned killers after helping them escape, Mrs. Soffel is a headlong ro...
