C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Kevin Willmott

Writer:

Kevin Willmott (writer)

Release Date:

24 June 2005 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

What if the South had won the War?

Plot:

Through the eyes of a british "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

Plot Keywords:

American Civil War | Civil War | Fake Documentary | What If | Journalist

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Greg Kirsch	...	Confederate Family Dad
Renee Patrick	...	Confederate Family Mom
Molly Graham	...	Confederate Family Child
William Willmott	...	Confederate Family Slave / Frederick Douglas (voice) (as Will Willmott)
Rupert Pate	...	Sherman Hoyle
Evamarii Johnson	...	Patricia Johnson
Greg Hurd	...	Mr. Johnson
Ryan L. Carroll	...	Bobby
Don Carlton	...	Colonel Bloodhound
Kevin McKinney	...	Blackface Abraham Lincoln
Will Averill	...	Blackface Harriet Tubman
Arlo Kasper	...	Old Abraham Lincoln
Joe Bugni	...	Car Guy No. 1
Troy Moore	...	Car Guy No. 2
Jennifer Coville	...	Daisie

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:Unrated | USA:TV-MA (cable rating) | UK:12A

Filming Locations:

Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Company:

Hodcarrier Films

Trivia:

The "viewer discretion advised" title card was suggest by a woman in the film's test audience.

Goofs:

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Since this film deals with an alternate history which diverged from our timeline in 1863, all so-called anachronisms and factual errors dealing with events from that point on should be regarded as plot holes at best, and redundant at least.

Quotes:

[first lines]
[commercial for Confederate Family Insurance]
Confederate Family Insurance Speaker: A man fills many roles in his lifetime: provider, protector, master of the house. As a father you have a vital role in your family's life. They depend on you to be there. We help to make sure you can fulfill that promise, because
[pause]
Confederate Family Insurance Speaker: no matter what they call you
[pause]
Confederate Family Insurance Speaker: at the end of the day
[pause]
Confederate Family Insurance Speaker: you know you're just
[pause]
[...]

Movie Connections:

Spoofs "Martha Stewart Living" (1991)

Interesting but ultimately flawed

Interesting but ultimately flawed. The South was NOT fighting to conquer the North. The South was fighting for it's independence. The South was winning the war before Antietam and by 1863 there were calls in the war-weary North for a negotiated settlement. Had the South won, it is highly unlikely the USA would have dissolved into the CSA. Instead you would have had both sovereign nations, similar to the 2 Germanies and Korea's. With this more likely outcome, now you get into some interesting scenarios: 1)the CSA eventually rejoins the Union because it is more economically feasible to do so and because world opinions is against slavery. The slaves eventually would have been emancipated in the South, and this makes it acceptable to rejoin the USA. 2)who gets the west? the forthcoming squabble would spark a war between the 2 America's (technically NOT a civil war). The US wins this time but price of victory is dissolution of the CSA.