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27 April 2003 (USA)
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Desperate Times, hard truths, unexpected dangers. One extraordinary summer will change a young boy and his family...forever.
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A young boy, his family, and the migrant workers they hire to work their cotton farm struggle against difficult odds to raise and sell the crop...
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Nominated for Primetime Emmy.
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3 nominations
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Lacks the intensity of the book, but a decent tale to watch.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Scott Glenn | ... | Eli 'Pappy' Chandler | |
| Arija Bareikis | ... | Kathleen Chandler | |
| Robert Sean Leonard | ... | Jesse Chandler | |
| Melinda Dillon | ... | Gran Chandler | |
| Logan Lerman | ... | Luke Chandler | |
| Audrey Marie Anderson | ... | Tally Spruill | |
| Geoffrey Lewis | ... | Mr. Spruill | |
| Pablo Schreiber | ... | Hank Spruill | |
| Michael Shamus Wiles | ... | Stick Peters | |
| Luis Garcia | ... | Cowboy (as Luis Esteban Garcia) | |
| Miguel Pérez | ... | Miguel | |
| Diane Delano | ... | Mrs. Spruill | |
| Luke Eberl | ... | Trot Spruill | |
| Sean Jones | ... | Bo Spruill | |
| Richard Crowe | ... | Mr. Latcher |
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John Grisham's A Painted House (USA) (complete title)
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USA:120 min (including commercials) | Brazil:97 min
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The town scenes were filmed in Lepanto, AR and many residents of the city served as extras in the movies.
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Revealing mistakes: When the soda fountain worker give the customer a fountain drink, the seltzer from the spigot comes out brown. Seltzer is clear. All fountain drinks, including Coca Cola, required a squirt of flavored syrup then the cup was held under the fountain spigot. The clerk would push the handle back for a pressurized squirt to mix the clear seltzer and syrup then would pull the handle forward to fill the glass.
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Overall entertaining, but you will not find the movie as captivating as the book. I thought that the film was entertaining, but never delivered the emotion and punch that I felt while reading the novel. The Spruill characters were believable, but I had imagined Hank to be a larger and more menacing physical specimen than the movie portrayed.