Film

Blaze

Name: Blaze
Director: Ron Shelton
Released: 1989
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain, Jeffrey DeMunn

1989 · 117 min · ★ 6.4 · Dir. Ron Shelton

A governor. A stripper. Forced to chose between the office he held and the woman he loved, he chose both.

This movie tells the story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana. The aging Earl, an unapologetic habitue of strip joints, falls in love with young stripper Blaze Starr. When Earl and Blaze move in together, Earl's opponents use this to attack his controversial political program, which included civil rights for blacks in the 1950's.