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29 September 1996 (USA) morePlot:
On his deathbed in the hospital, Jason's father asks that he be buried in the town from which he came... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Would make a better short. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dan Cortese | ... | Jason Smith |
 | Keri Russell | ... | Felice Dunbar |
 | Veronica Cartwright | ... | Maggie Dunbar |
 | Stephen Root | ... | Graham Dunbar |
 | William Daniels | ... | Reverend Hutchinson |
 | William Morgan Sheppard | ... | Mayor Warner (as W. Morgan Sheppard) |
| Joe Chrest | ... | Deputy Jeff Simmons |
| Salome Jens | ... | Faith Lloyd |
 | M. Emmet Walsh | ... | Chief Davis |
 | Sean Murray | ... | Henry Watkins |
| Jon Huffman | ... | Dr. Wasserman |
| Jeff Corey | ... | Albert Smith |
 | Amy Parrish | ... | Kelly Malone |
 | Alex Van | ... | Craig Lloyd |
| David Lenthall | ... | Postmaster |
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I first read Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" in my high school freshman English class and was really shocked that they would let us read THIS kind of story in a learning institute. Needless to say, that tale has always stuck with me. When I heard that NBC was going to be showing a made-for-TV movie based off of the story, my hopes were not high. When I saw the finished product, my fears were confirmed. Let's face it, folks, there are some short stories that just aren't meant to be feature-length films and this is one of them. I think it would have made a much better short subject or been done as an episode of a horror anthology series in the mold of "The Twilight Zone" or "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
The story's theme of blindly following archaic traditions still rings within the film, just having it being padded out into a conventional thriller didn't work for me though. To see how to handle a short story REALLY well, try to find the adaptation of William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" that starred a young Angelica Huston. In a similar vein as "The Lottery", "Rose" runs approximately fifteen minutes and is very effective and evocative.