Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)

Directed by

Billy Bob Thornton

Genre

drama film, comedy film, slice of life

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

R

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 67 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two dysfunctional families are forced to reunite in rural Alabama for the funeral of the elderly woman who connected them. As they gather, old tensions and buried feelings emerge among the family members.

contemplativebittersweetslow-pacedintrospectivenostalgicfamily dramasouthern gothiccharacter-driven

What happens

Jayne Mansfield's Car is a 2012 American Southern Gothic film directed by Billy Bob Thornton and cowritten by Thornton and his longtime collaborator Tom Epperson. The film marks Thornton's first directorial work since his 2000 film adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel All the Pretty Horses. Featuring an ensemble cast of Thornton, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick, Ray Stevenson, Katherine LaNasa and Frances O'Connor, the film focuses on the effects of an elderly woman's passing on two dysfunctional families she was part of when they meet together in 1960s rural Alabama for her funeral. The film had its world premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. The film was released in limited release on September 13, 2013. One of the locations in which the movie was shot is Cedartown, Georgia, USA. Exterior home shots were filmed in Troup County, Georgia, while additional scenes were shot in Decatur, Georgia. For the Greek Revival home, the interior shots were filmed at The Bailey-Tebault House located in Griffin, Georgia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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