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Writers (WGA):
Tim Sandlin (book)
Tim Sandlin (screenplay)
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Release Date:
30 August 1998 (USA) more
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After losing custody of her infant child to her domineering husband, a distressed woman's cross country... more | add synopsis
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Paul Hogan hurts otherwise good film about alcoholism more (5 total)

Cast

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Paul Hogan ... Shane

Judge Reinhold ... Lloyd

Rosanna Arquette ... Maurey Talbot

Brendan Fletcher ... Brad
Jo Harvey Allen ... Dahlia
Robert Wisden ... Armand
Brenda McDonald ... Mum

Dwight McFee ... Dad
Stephen E. Miller ... Mangum Potter

Greg Thirloway ... Dothan Talbot

Gabrielle Miller ... Sugar

Rondel Reynoldson ... Faith
Michael Puttonen ... Tait
Carly McKillip ... Singing Girl
Liam Ranger ... Nickel Boy
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Sorrow Floats (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
105 min
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Followed by Skipped Parts (2000) more
Soundtrack:
How dry I am more

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Paul Hogan hurts otherwise good film about alcoholism, 13 December 2001
Author: Bill Davis from Ghent, KY

I very much wanted to see this film because I so enjoyed the Tim Sandlin trilogy (Skipped Parts, Sorrow Floats, Social Blunders) from which this film is derived. The books are far superior but this movie was able to capture some of the spirit of the book upon which it was based (Sorrow Floats). I couldn't accept the casting of Paul Hogan, with a thick Australian accent, stopping in the American South to see his mother -- who also has a thick Australian accent -- at what was supposed to be his boyhood home. He stuck out in the movie like a sore thumb. He also looked to be too healthy to be a dying wheelchair-bound alcoholic. When I read the book M. Emmett Walsh came to mind. There must be some odd story behind the casting of this film. The other movie to be based on these books, SKIPPED PARTS, is very good and remarkably loyal to the source.

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