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Limited Release: Feb 22, 2002; Rated: R; Length: 111 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Arliss Howard and Debra Winger
C+
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
The tone of this beery, bluesy film is dictated by the pickup-truck-lovin' prose style of Mississippi writer Larry Brown, upon whose writing the short-story-size movie is based. Arliss Howard directs and stars as a romanticized antihero with a busted marriage and a burning need to write, even when he's drunk and hurtin'; Arliss' real-life wife, Debra Winger, appears as the struggling writer's ex. There's a whole lot of opulent Southern atmosphere going on -- about some stunted, opaque characters.
Posted Mar 08, 2002
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