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Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron
The Ballad Of Little Jo Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins (1993, New Line, R, priced for rental) Movies like this are why home video was invented. Maggie Greenwald's frontier drama about a young woman (Amis) who lived most of her life disguised as a man sank without a trace at the box office, yet it's the kind of tape that gets passed from friend to friend like a favorite novel. There's a New Age vapidity lurking around the fringes, but Amis' terse performance keeps the film honest, and its portrait of an 1880s pioneer town in transition from muddy anarchy to awkward civilization is raw and real. An unvarnished winner. B+ -TB
Posted Mar 25, 1994
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