Plot
Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 6.1/10 (667 voted)
Director:Billy Bob Thornton
Storyline
A young man in the 1940s raises a family in Alabama after his wife leaves him for an Englishman and moves to England. When the wife dies, she leaves a request to be brought back to Alabama to be buried, and at that point the man hasn't seen her in nearly 30 years. The two families - her original family she abandoned and her English family - meet and make an attempt to adjust to each other, with uneven results.
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Filming Locations: Cedartown, Georgia, USA
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Rating: 8/10
Duvals performance as the introspective, typical unemotional parent of
the 50's/60's was masterful. Bacon gave his usual great performance as
the hippy son. Thornton's southern ignoramus and the American brash
personality clashing with the proper brits was a great storyline. Ron
White's performance was great...he played himself. The guy who played
the liquid terminater is great too... I loved it. Several story lines
within the same family all moving forward in a similar direction. The
setting is in the south. It is unclear exactly where. I didn't need to
see Billy Bob Thornton naked, but I guess it was important to the
storyline.. LOL. "she could take it right up to the gills" is one of
billy bobs quotes...
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