It's May 16th. Happy Birthday, Debra Winger. Back in the 1980s, there were vert few new actresses as interesting, as feisty, as original and as gifted as Debra Winger. We loved her in URBAN COWBOY (1980), AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982 and 1983's classic TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. She went to do more solid in films such as 1993's SHADOWLANDS. We can see her be one of the best things in the kinda lame Netflix sitcom, THE RANCH. It's a production that makes he say "This is the best material you can come up with for Debra Winger?!?!?"
I want to recommend one of my favorite Debra Winger performances in a film that rarely gets mentioned. It's a 1988 soy thriller that, sadly, feels achingly timely in light of our country's current political turbulence. Directed by Costa-Gavras (who gave us Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek in MISSING and the foreign thriller Z), this 1988 film is called BETRAYED.
Debra Winger plays an undercover FBI agent on the case of a Jewish radio host who was murdered by a suspected white supremacists. She has to infiltrate a rural community that may be harboring some of those suspects. The film co-stars Tom Berenger as the friendly single dad farmer who welcomes her into the community.
Here's a BETRAYED (1988) original movie trailer.
Here's a short clip from BETRAYED.
You can stream BETRAYED on HBO Max.
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