Falling from Grace

Falling from Grace is a 1992 American drama film directed by and starring John Mellencamp; it was met with more positive reviews than not. The 100-minute drama film is the on-screen and directorial debut rock singer John Mellencamp. It also stars Mariel Hemingway, Claude Akins, Dub Taylor, Kay Lenz, and Larry Crane. Larry McMurtry's story closely follows one of Mellencamp's own: following a country-music celebrity who returns to Indiana with his wife (Hemingway), but cheats with a hometown lover (Lenz), repeating the spiraling lifestyle of his father (Akins). Falling from Grace was released in the US by Columbia Pictures on February 21, 1992 to 22 theaters where the Motion Picture Association of America rated it as PG-13. At 96 minutes, the film was released in the United Kingdom on October 1, 1992. In the US, the film earned at the box office on opening weekend, with an overall 45-week return of (respectively equivalent to $ and $ in ). , review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes showed a 78-percent positive view of the film, based on nine film critics.