While Connelly is still often called upon to play the romantic interest, she has proven herself to be talented and versatile enough to make those characters more complicated. She wouldn’t receive widespread critical recognition until “Requiem For A Dream” (2000) and “A Beautiful Mind” (2001), the latter of which would earn her an Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. However, due to her stunning looks she was often relegated to play either the hero’s girlfriend or the main character’s mistress. She achieved mainstream success in Jim Henson’s “Labyrinth” (1985), and shortly after graduated to more adult roles. When he's eventually revealed as an embittered cad, Jacey's mistreatment of the Abbott girls makes the genuine affection between Doug and Pam impossible for either family to accept.Jennifer Connelly started acting at age 12 will a small part in Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon A Time In America” (1984). For Jacey, his conquest of the Abbotts is a form of economic revenge, as he believes that the head of the family, Lloyd ( Will Patton), stole a patent that made him rich from the Holts' late father. At first, this is Eleanor ( Jennifer Connelly), the "wild" sister, but eventually Jacey sets his sights on the divorced oldest sister, Alice ( Joanna Going).
Shy and quiet Doug, who worships his womanizing brother, has eyes for the iconoclastic Pam ( Liv Tyler), but Jacey's affections are more calculating he's interested in whichever Abbott sister is interested in him. Though they are from the wrong side of the tracks, the working class brothers Jacey ( Billy Crudup) and Doug Holt ( Joaquin Phoenix) are in love with the wealthy and beautiful Abbott sisters. The lives of two closely linked, small town Illinois families dangerously intersect in this domestic drama set in the 1950s, based on a short story by Sue Miller and directed by Pat O'Connor.
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