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Deep South films which are your favorite?

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Deleted 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 4 16:06 -
Ihave justseen The Help,set in Mississippi about the relationships in the 1960's about the whites and coloureds - a very good film.
Which one's are your favorites?
Another one I enjoyed was Mississippi Burning with Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe
Peter 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 4 17:14 -
I can't recall many but
I like southern comfort..
Xanadon't 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 4 20:50 -
My Cousin Vinny is something of a minor classic.
death shade 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 5 16:19 -
def Southern Comfort. love that flick, kairo.

also:

The Corndog Man
Gummo
The Pigkeeper's Daughter
Undertow
Cockfighter
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Big Bad Mama

Mackenzi 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 6 23:50 -
The only two that I remember are,

The Skeleton key
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

They were good, though not enough to be classics.
cteddiesgirl 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 7 8:16 -
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Long Walk Home
A Time to Kill

All I can think of right now.
SnappySneezer 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 7 22:51 -
Song of the South
Fletch Lives
It's a Joke Son
blankend 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 16 5:54 -
"Tick...Tick...Tick" - Racial tensions in The Deep South with George Kennedy and Jim Brown.

"The Chase" - A Southern prison break sets off a series of events including, racism, vigilantism, and sexual revolution issues. The all star cast includes Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall.

"Hurry Sundown" - A bigoted draft dodger tries to illegally swindle land from black sharecroppers. To complete his crooked scheme, he enlists the Klan's help with disastorious results. The cast includes Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, George Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Robert Reed, and Jim Backus.

"This Property is Condemmed" - This screenplay was written by Frances Ford Coppola, Fred Coe, and Edith Sommer. It was adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams. It takes place in a small Mississippi town during the great depression. While most everyone in town depends on the railroad for a living, a handsome stranger causes an uproar at a local 'boarding' house when it is revealled he is a railroad 'spotter' whose purpose is to lay off most of the town due to cutbacks brought on by the depression. The cast includes Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Robert Blake, Charles Bronson, Dabney Coleman, and features Mary Badham (Sport from 'To Kill a Mockingbird').

"In The Heat of The Night" - The original 1967 movie version is about a black northern police detective who, after initially being arrested as a supsect because he is a stranger (and black) in a small Mississippi town, decides to help the bigotted police chief solve a murder mystery. The Academy Award winning cast includes Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, and William Schallert.
D2011 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 16 7:04 -
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Other voices, other rooms (I think that was the name).
The Skeleton key.

I haven't watched Help yet
CalmOcean 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 27 20:33 -
Take Shelter
Shotgun Stories
Higher Ground
All the Little Animals
Tully
CalmOcean 12 years, 4 months ago at Jan 27 20:35 -