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The author's phobic attitude toward the "Boston Marriage" of the two heroines seems to mirror that of the southern chauvinist Basil Ransom (which is offputting) and the book never quite recovers from thoroughly humanizing the doomed females while setting them up to be trounced by the Great White Male.
I love this film, the accurate portrayal of some aspects of southern U.S. life and culture, and especially Duvall's performance.
A homage of sorts to Zombie's favorite genre, southern fried horror.
Seems inappropriate to make the real life outrages of the Holocaust fodder for a sappy southern boy's bildungsroman.
Barry Sullivan is bland as a director, and the normally capable Dick Powell cannot overcome a bad case of miscasting in his performance as a pipe-puffing Southern writer (not based on Faulkner, I hope).
The Southern people, while often retaining their traditional values of faith in God and a deep mistrust of the government, have largely evolved into a cosmopolitan, technology-driven population.
Norwegian forces in central and southern began to surrender.
Sue Ann Cunningham is your average Southern California teenager.
Set in southern Missouri in the early 1800's, Tom (Jonathon Taylor Thomas) and Huck (Brad Renfro)reunite and have some very interesting adventures together.
The main setting for the movie is an old abandoned mansion, inhabited by a group of young hippies in southern California.
The picture tells the story of a headstrong young Southern woman during the Antebellum period whose actions cost her the man she loves.
Although the acting leaves something to be desired it is a must watch for those wanting to see a dramatization of the hopelessness of the lives of children in the early Southern States.
The Chief of Defense staff sounded like he had a stroke, and I loved the guy with the overacted Southern drawl.
And thank goodness Elliott wasn't asked to shave his gloriously-hairy chest for that "Southern California" look!
Anything from the soundtracks to the acting without southern accents was enough for me to just simply laugh at this film during the whole dreadful ninety-six minutes.
Mickey Rooney, I will admit was good and one woman actually had a southern accent, but otherwise it was a waste of money.
Better Midler gives a smashing, touching, tear-the-house-down dynamic and exhilarating Oscar-nominated performance as the Rose, a fabulously wealthy and successful popular rock superstar sensation who's been burnt-out and worn down by too much long hard time on the road, too much booze and drugs (Rose likes to swig Southern Comfort straight from the bottle while performing live on stage), too many cameras in her face and too much time spent recording songs in the studio at the expense of having a meaningful and fulfilling personal life, all of which leaves Rose feeling terribly lonely, unhappy and unloved.
He is great as a man who is giving his ex-wife to be a hard time, when she gets engaged to a rich southern oil man.
[Canadian director/script-writer] Moore seems more interested in venting irony against his southern neighbors than on creating a real comedy.
While voodoo is normally associated with creole culture in the southern United States, London's vibrant Afro-Caribbean culture also maintains some remnants of voodoo practices.
Scott's character is Barlow, a veteran Southern spy with impressive credentials.
Flowers in the Attic (1987) was a weak attempt to translate the twisted V.C. Andrews southern Gothic horror novel into a made-to-teens movie.
What's less so is Herman Raucher's painfully expository dialogue ("Bobbie Lee, you know the Rural Electrification Project doesn't provide power to remote areas!"), the cast's excruciating Southern accents (all bad, but not even uniformly so)and the teenagers' Gone With the Wind diction.
It's filmed in Atlanta but the little girl is the only one with an southern drawl.
And contrary to another comment on the movie, having lived in Southern Cal during this period and being the age that this movie was aimed at, it was meant to be taken seriously for the disco crowd that was running rampant just prior to and during its release period.
This is set in the south so everyone revs up the southern accent to intolerable levels (I live here and I have yet to hear anyone sound that southern) then there is Mic who is from New York.
I am completely astonished at how stupid movies have become from our southern neighbours.
Gotta love the southern accents.
After the war ended, he remained in command of the 3rd Army for 5 months as it became an occupation force in the southern portion of Germany that it controlled.
I hope, no, I pray that these southern goof balls never touch a camera again and stick with what they're good at...watching movies, not making them.
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