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Genres:
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Drama /
Comedy
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Release:
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Director:
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Antonio Banderas
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Actors:
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Melanie Griffith,
Cathy Moriarty,
Fannie Flagg,
David Morse,
Lucas Black,
Meat Loaf,
Rod Steiger,
Richard Schiff,
John Beasley,
Robert Wagner,
Noah Emmerich,
Sandra Seacat,
Paul Ben-Victor,
Brad Beyer,
Elizabeth Perkins
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(5.7/10)68.5
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Plot Summary:
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Antonio Banderas makes his directorial coming out with this adaptation (from the untried at near Mark Childress), starring Melanie Griffith, Cathy Moriarty, Unpredictable Steiger, and Fannie Flagg. Set down in Alabama, Griffith plays Aunt Lucille, a woman who's killed her abusive conserve and is on her detail out to Hollywood in pursuit of telly stardom. She serves as an inspiration to Peejoe, a polished rights activist; a well-realized period broken.
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Tags:
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Black Comedy
Watching this a week after seeing 'Boycott' and with the present BBC series about black civil rights workers, (also hearing just now on the news the results of the court case about the real man behind the Mossippi burning incidents), I feel my life is being taken along a civil rights movement theme. However, this film is much more fun and less serious than the others. Melanie Griffiths does a Marilyn Monroe/Judy Garland/ Audrey Hepburn piece of OTT acting whilst the supporting cast is good. Especially noticeable are the young Lucas Black as Pee Joe and Robert Wagner as the judge. Once again - a fun film with various quite serious messages.
Looking for more like this in the future.
Moving
I have just finished watching this for the second time round, once was years ago and was so glad to see it again. A all round brilliant story with a good dose of humour. This story showed that morals reigned supreme at the end.
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