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This movie has nothing much to do with Earl Hamner's boyhood, on which it is based, but it's a fun movie just the same. Lots of overacting and preposterous scenes, along with beautiful pictures of the Wyoming scenery. The Wyoming location is one of the more stunning inaccuracies; Hamner actually grew up in the deep South. Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara are great in it, and Donald Crisp is a real hoot as the patriarch of the clan, especially when Henry accidently flattens him with a tree. If you have a couple of hours to waste, this is the perfect movie to waste them on. If you want something closer to Hamner's actual life, watch "The Waltons".
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