Pack of lies! "Harry York"...WHO??

I can't think of another "Hollywood bio-pic" since 1980 that re-writes the "real life story" of its subject as egregiously as Frances did! The script is atrocious--and the completely made-up character of "Harry York" (played by Sam Shepard) is an utter desecration of the memory of a woman who HAD no "savior" at every turn. He even helps her escape from the lunatic asylum (with an ice pick, no less...perhaps a nod to the idea that lobotomies were once done with ice pick-lick instruments? WHO KNOWS, in this giant mess of a script?. And, FACT: SHE DID NOT HAVE A LOBOTOMY! Case closed! The whole point of Frances Farmer's true story is that she lived her life in Hollywood WITHOUT any "white knights"...and for these writers to have invented this fake "romantic interest" casts a phony-baloney pall over the entire film. Yes, Jessica Lange looks eerily like Frances--but on further, recent study, her shrieky, shrill, borderline annoying performance does not stand the test of time. Geez, even the hoot-out-loud hilarious Mommie Dearest (which was made the year before this film) got the facts better than this one! Poor Frances deserves much better treatment than this one. Poorly- directed, execrably-written....PASS!!