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Writer (WGA):
W. Blake Herron (written by)
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Release Date:
5 May 2000 (Italy) more
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In Texas in the late '60s, the Whit family meets for the funeral of grandfather Sparta. This, however... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Quinton Jones ... Little Sparta

Robert Patrick ... Zach
Jane Adams ... Mary Joan

Martin Sheen ... Grandpa Sparta

Chris Noth ... Clinton

Olivia d'Abo ... Charlotte

Grace Zabriskie ... Murtis

Joanne Whalley ... Miranda

Mona Lee Fultz ... Nurse (as Mona Lee)

Isaiah Washington ... Walter
Harold Suggs ... Lucas
Michael Crabtree ... Achilles
Steve Shearer ... Jefferson
Mark Walters ... Young Lucas

Todd Lowe ... Skinny Private
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content and some violence.
Runtime:
98 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Zach Whit: A man spends the first half of his life trying to figure women out, and the second half trying to forget what he's learned. more

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An entertaining but overwrought exercise in American Baroque, 13 October 1999
Author: Rodney Breen (rbreen@dircon.co.uk) from London, UK

An entertaining but overwrought exercise in American Baroque, the best way to describe this film is to say that it begins in David Lynch territory, rambles through Tennessee Williams country, and was last seen heading dangerously close to Waltons Mountain. Set in Texas in the late 1960s, the plot - dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a family funeral - is hardly original, and while the Texan self-image comes in for some welcome satire, the cosy self-satisfied way in which the whole thing is tied up at the end would have a serious dramatist like Tennessee Williams spinning in his grave. Martin Sheen is much too decent to play the wicked old patriarch, and while any film that includes Joanne Whalley, ear-sucking, and camels can't be entirely bad, this is not a good advertisement for any of them.

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