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Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
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Sometimes extraordinary things happen in the most ordinary places more
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12 year old Lily Bobbit moves to Medda, Ala, and immediately makes an impression on the residents when she and her friends team up to outsmart a con man, the town is changed forever. full summary | full synopsis
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Truman Capote is spinning in his grave
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Sheryl Lee | ... | Elinore Murphy (as Sheryl Lee Diamond) |
 | Joe Pichler | ... | Billy Bob Murphy |
 | Jesse Plemons | ... | Preacher Star |
 | Tania Raymonde | ... | Lily Jane Bobbit |
 | Christopher McDonald | ... | Speedy Thorne |
 | Tom Arnold | ... | Lionel Quince |
 | Phyllis Frelich | ... | Mrs. Bobbit |
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| Cynthia Baker | ... | Ada Willingham |
 | Tom Brainard | ... | Comedian |
| Brazhal Brewer | ... | Rosalba Cat |
| Ritch Brinkley | ... | Acey Trump |
 | Emily Clibourn | ... | Cora Mae |
| Freeman Coffey | ... | Mr. Cat |
| Caitlin Collins | ... | Janice |
| Susan Coolidge | ... | Cowgirl Singer |
| Marilyn Dodds Frank | ... | Mrs. Quince |
| John Judd | ... | Jeb |
 | Weston Mueller | ... | Butch |
| Lucina Paquet | ... | Mrs. Sawyer |
| Alexander Piccolo | ... | Malcolm Doralle |
| Paul Quaintance | ... | Reverend |
| Joe Van Slyke | ... | Mr. Dixon |
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Rated PG for mild thematic elements and brief language.
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102 min
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References The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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It is difficult to tell if any member of the production company responsible for this appalling movie, ever read Truman Capote's original short story. The short story had at its center a delightfully willful heroine whose good deeds were only incidental to her self-centeredness. In more skillful hands, this wicked piece of literature could have reached the screen as a spare little piece of Southern Gothic. What the filmmakers chose instead to do was to turn Miss Lily Jane Bobbit into Pollyanna, the classic little do-gooder. It is not as if I am unaware of the eternal conflict between people's images and recollections of the printed word and what Hollywood ends up putting on the screen. Truman Capote himself called "Breakfast at Tiffany's", his most popular screen adaptation, a "mawkish valentine to Audrey Hepburn". (He later recanted that opinion, by the way.) Probably the best example of the expression "the movie captured the spirit of the book" occurred with "To Kill a Mockingbird", a production which recognized that source material needs to be treated with honesty and respect. Disappointments are inevitable, but a good adaptation requires just that -- honesty and respect. This production of "Children on Their Birthdays" not only lacks those qualities, but it also lacks good taste, while at every turn is busy making everything politically correct. My only solace in all this is that this picture will never receive a wide theatrical release, and will only be seen on video. It is too much to hope that this thing would just be shelved.