Great period atmosphere, great performances from the leads, but I would say NOT a great script nor even a good one, particularly. I would have enjoyed a straight drama about these characters in this situation -- without all the melodramatic Southern Gothic horse manure that they ladled on with a trowel. This could have been and should have been a sensitive character study; instead, they made it into an up-market exploitation movie. And why is Sam Shepard (mostly hidden under costume, shadow and fright make-up) wasted in the thankless, non-speaking title role? Anybody could have played that part. He must have needed the money.
Review of Raggedy Man
