Critic Reviews

• Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter

  Filmmaker-actor Ray McKinnon voices his Southern droll in this amusing, feel-good comedy.

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  Not a very good movie, on the whole, but there are laugh-out-loud moments and there's promise in the unusual world it depicts.

• Joe Leydon, Variety

  A Southern-fried deadpan farce that suggests a mid-'60s CBS sitcom as reimagined by Hal Hartley.

• Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  It's a film brimming with individual scenes featuring nice visual touches about the South and comforting down-home dialogue spiced with a healthy twinge of sarcasm. Too bad the movie never completely gels.

• Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

  Arch in a way that his previous feature was honest, it's a clumsy attempt to lay an overcoat of forced cornpone whimsy on a drab storyline involving mobsters.

• Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

  It's just that the comedy and the drama never quite crystalize into anything remotely affecting, with the end result feeling more like some extended Southern in-joke than an honest movie.

• Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  ...the sort of movie that, if the dice fall right, could find a considerable audience. It is a lot smarter and truer to life than a lot of little independent movies that could and did.

• John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

  The influences of a strange outside world rub up against -- and sometimes abrade -- Southern tradition and a good ol' boy's increasingly fragile sense of self in this dry, gentle, sometimes silly and sometimes very funny comedy.

• Jonathan W. Hickman, Entertainment Insiders

  Slow-cooked to perfection

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