Carried Away

Based on the novel -Farmer by Jim Harrison, this drama concerns Joseph Svenden (Dennis Hopper), a one-time farmer in his late forties who took up teaching when he permanently injured his leg in an accident. Joseph's life is orderly, precise, and rather dull. He teaches with as much enthusiasm as he ...more

From the start of Carried Away, it's clear that the two lead characters are locked in a slow dance of waiting. Joseph and Rosalee are teacher colleagues caring for ailing, aging mothers, which circumstance has extended their engagement to such a length (six years) that a kind of stale familiarity has set in. Enter Catherine Wheeler, a transfer student with an overactive libido; she sees Joseph not just as another lover, but as an instrument of revenge against her hard-line military father ...more