Posts Tagged ‘southern-u.s.’

Deliverance (1972)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Voight, Jon | Reynolds, Burt | Beatty, Ned | Cox, Ronny | Ramey, Ed | Redden, Billy | Glass, Seamon | Deal, Randall | McKinney, Bill | Coward, Herbert 'Cowboy' | Crone, Lewis | Keener, Ken | Popwell, Johnny | Fowler, John | Rickman, Kathy
Directors: Boorman, John
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Based on James Dickey’s novel, this film tells the story of an ill-fated canoe trip in deep backwoods America, where the people are as scary as the country is beautiful.

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Gable, Clark | Leigh, Vivien | Howard, Leslie | de Havilland, Olivia | Mitchell, Thomas
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Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bates, Kathy | Masterson, Mary Stuart | Parker, Mary-Louise | Tandy, Jessica | Tyson, Cicely | O'Donnell, Chris | Shaw, Stan | Sartain, Gailard | Scott, Timothy | Basaraba, Gary | Smith, Lois | Allen, Jo Harvey | McCalman, Macon | Riehle, Richard | Scheine, Raynor
Directors: Avnet, Jon
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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920’s Alabama. Through Idgie’s inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

Prince of Tides, The (1991)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Danner, Blythe | Nelligan, Kate | Krabbé, Jeroen | Dillon, Melinda | Carlin, George | Gould, Jason | Sullivan, Brad | Collier, Maggie | Wray, Lindsay | Whitaker, Brandlyn | Woods, Justen | Fain, Bobby | Yearwood, Trey
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When a Southern born New York writer tries to commit suicide, her “unemployed-football-coach” twin brother, Tom Wingo, comes to her aid. While tending to his sister Savannah’s care he meets her psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein. Dr. Lowenstein, desperate to unlock the door to her patient’s self-destructive pattern, relies on Tom to be his sister’s memory. What she doesn’t realize is that the last thing Tom wants to do is remember. Haunted by a painful childhood and a domineering mother, Tom discovers the only thing worse than not remembering is not telling.

Steel Magnolias (1989)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Field, Sally | Parton, Dolly | MacLaine, Shirley | Hannah, Daryl | Dukakis, Olympia | Roberts, Julia | Skerritt, Tom | Shepard, Sam | McDermott, Dylan | O'Connor, Kevin J. | McCutcheon, Bill | Wedgeworth, Ann | Johnson, Knowl | Ward, Jonathan | Besch, Bibi
Directors: Ross, Herbert
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Revolving around Truvy’s Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. As the picture opens, we find Drum Eatenton shooting birds in the trees of his back yard in preparation for his daughter’s wedding reception that afternoon. Shortly thereafter, M’Lynn and Shelby (Drum’s wife and daughter) depart for Truvy’s to get their hair done for the wedding. “Just the sweetest thing,” Annelle Depuy Desoto (who may or may not be married because her marriage may not be legal) is introduced to Truvy’s customers as her new “glamour technician.” While in the chairs, the sour-tempered Ouiser Boudreaux shows up and entertains the assemblage with her barbs. It seems that the only one of the group who truly understands Ouiser is Clairee who is recently widowed and looking for a diversion. As she says, later in the picture, “If you can’t find anything good to say about anybody, come sit by me.” Filled with humor and heartbreak, these “Steel Magnolias” make us laugh and cry as the realities of their lives in tiny Chiquapin Parish unfolds.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Clooney, George | Hunter, Holly | Turturro, John | Root, Stephen | Goodman, John | Durning, Charles
Directors: Coen, Joel
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”

Brubaker (1980)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Redford, Robert | Kotto, Yaphet | Alexander, Jane | Hamilton, Murray | David, Keith | Freeman, Morgan | Clark, Matt | McIntire, Tim | Ward, Richard | Van Ness, Jon | Walsh, M. Emmet | Salmi, Albert | Haynes, Linda | McGill, Everett | Avery, Val
Directors: Rafelson, Bob
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Henry Brubaker is the new warden at Wakefield prison. He makes his entrance as a prisoner in order to get a convict’s-eye-view of the real state of the institution. To his horror he finds all manner of abuse and corruption which, after disclosing his real identity, he sets out to correct.

Doc Hollywood (1991)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Warner, Julie | Hughes, Barnard | Harrelson, Woody | Stiers, David Ogden | Sternhagen, Frances | Hamilton, George | Fonda, Bridget | Winkler, Mel | Martin, Helen | Blossom, Roberts | Lacy, Tom | McCalman, Macon | Birk, Raye | Byrde, Eyde
Directors: Caton-Jones, Michael
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Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A where he was offered a new job as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. He gets off the highway to avoid a traffic jam, but gets lost and ends up crashing into a fence in the small town of Grady. He is sentenced to 32 hrs of community service at the local hospital. All he wants is to serve the sentence and get moving, but gradually the locals become attached to the new doctor, and he falls for the pretty ambulance driver, Lou. Will he leave?

Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Newman, Paul | Kennedy, George | Cannon, J.D. | Antonio, Lou | Drivas, Robert | Martin, Strother | James, Clifton | Woodward, Morgan | Askew, Luke | Cavell, Marc | Davalos, Richard | Donner, Robert | Warren Finnerty | Hopper, Dennis | McLiam, John
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Luke is sent to a prison camp, where he gets a reputation as a hard man. The head of the gang hates him, and tries to break him by beating him up. It doesn’t work, and he gains respect. His mother dies, and he escapes, but is caught, escapes again, and is caught again. Will the camp bosses ever break him ?

Honkytonk Man (1982)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Eastwood, Clint | Eastwood, Kyle | John McIntire | Clark, Matt | Corbin, Barry | Hardin, Jerry | Thomerson, Tim | McCalman, Macon | Regalbuto, Joe | Grubbs, Gary | Gimble, Johnny | Boelsen, Jim | Walter, Tracey | Russell, John | Cyphers, Charles
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As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus’ brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he’s broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid “growing up to be a cotton picker all my life,” begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.