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Release Date: Mar 1, 1996 Wide
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A young boy comes of age in rural Georgia during the 1940s in Terence Davies' challenging, visually powerful drama. Acclaimed for his nostalgic, beautifully photographed reflections on England's past (The Long Day Closes, Distant Voices, Still Lives), Davies looks beyond his home country to America with this adaptation of a novel by John Kennedy Toole, author of A Confederacy of Dunces. The film is told through the eyes of David (Jacob Tierney), a teenage boy struggling to deal with life in a
Mar 1, 1996 Wide
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What it lacks in dramatic thrust is made up for in the momentary (and sometimes sustained) glimpses of brilliance.
An old-fashioned type of coming-of-age film shot by the Englishman, Terence Davies.
If someone asked me to squat on a sea urchin for an hour an a half, I would have gone through less pain. Like a Siberian winter, you just hope you make it to the end.
November 22, 2011Neon Bible (1995) ? ?Good crowd. Good money.? ? Bobby Lee (Evangelist) In the ultra-racist, holy-rolling South of the 1940?s, there?s a boy that just doesn?t belong. Unable to fit in with his peers, all he has is his wife-thumping father and his mentally deteriorating mother until Aunt Mae, too old to work the
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