Cedarmont Kids, Denis Leary, Diana Scarwid

Deep in the night, a solitary train winds its way through the dark countryside. Riding in one of the compartments is a sad-eyed sixteen year old boy, David. As he peers out through a window into the b...( read more  read more... )lackness, David begins to see images of his own life, fragments of the past. So begins this lyrical story of a young boy growing up in a small Southern Bible Belt town in the 1940s with his father whose self-esteem has been destroyed since losing his factory job, and his overly sensitive mother. The arrival of Aunt Mae, a flamboyant and rather risque nightclub singer, has a lasting and significant effect on David's life.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.

Directed by: Terence Davies

Release Date: March 1, 1996

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DVD Release Date: August 24, 2004

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  • October 6, 2009
    His weakest work, but still not bad.
  • January 25, 2009
    LETTERBOX. Ultra-ultralenta, pero muy bien lograda en atmósfera y propuesta estética... Y tiene a Gena Rowlands, claro. / Super, superslow, but extremely accomplished atmosphere and aesthetic design... Plus, Gena Rowland's in it, of course.
  • August 2, 2008
    Based on the book by John Kennedy Toole (which I have not read), which was the inspiration for a song and the name of the Arcade Fire's second album (which is, amongst other things, about the hypocrasy of religion). The DVD art looks cheesy, but the film stars Geena Rowlands who ...( read more)is good in anything, and as a fan of the Arcade Fire I want to check it out anyway.

    EDIT: It has just made my day reading the wildly inaccurate synopsis which has clearly come from the description of a childrens christian cartoon.

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