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| Colin Firth | ... | Gus Leroy | |
| Ellen Burstyn | ... | Georgiana Carr | |
| Patricia Clarkson | ... | Willa Jenkins | |
| Orlando Bloom | ... | Harris Parker | |
| Amber Tamblyn | ... | Mary Saunders | |
| Margo Martindale | ... | Myrtle Parker | |
| Andrew McCarthy | ... | Howard Mercer | |
| Victoria Clark | ... | Miriam | |
| Isiah Whitlock Jr. | ... | Mayor | |
| Tom Wopat | ... | Frank | |
| Viktor Hernandez | ... | Estaquio | |
| Juan Piedrahita | ... | Jose | |
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Thomas Upchurch | ... | Trooper Williams |
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Reid Dalton | ... | Crosby Gage |
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Amy da Luz | ... | Rita |
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Several residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of today's challenging times, each of the colorful citizens of this close-knit North Carolina community, will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood. Written by Anonymous
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An offer too good to be true... it just might beGenres:
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Rated PG for mild thematic elements, brief language and smoking | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
26 July 2012 (Kuwait) See more »Also Known As:
Bom Demais Pra Ser Verdade See more »Filming Locations:
Durham, North Carolina, USAEdit
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$10,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$1,553, 11 September 2011, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$2,560, 15 September 2011Company Credits
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Ellen Burstyn's character, "Georgiana Carr," bears the last name of an actual Durham, N.C., family that was prominent in the tobacco business. The large portrait in her house, showing a uniformed man with a big white mustache, is a picture of Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924), one of Durham's earliest tobacco magnates, who was involved in a variety of other business enterprises and was a highly regarded philanthropist. The portrait normally resides in the North Carolina Collection of the Durham County Public Library. See more »Goofs
While Mary and her mother are talking in her bedroom, her mother's hair changes position - alternately behind and in front of her ear. See more »Quotes
Harris Parker: This city like many in America, has come to a rough moment in its history. A city after all is just a collection of houses and buildings, hopes and dreams that depend on the fortune and determination and fate of its residents. The future, uncertain at best can be fearful or full of promise. It's all in how you see it..."See more »
This could remind one of a Steven Soderbergh snore fest. It is a lingering, slow moving, vaguely interesting story of the modern American condition that promises much but delivers almost nothing.
It is a character study of realistic people in a realistic situation forced to make difficult choices that come from a changing society. But it is all very vapid and the plot points are as unresolved and unanswered as is the finality of it all.
The ending is so anti-climactic and the "change of mind and heart" from the "villain" of the piece is just abrupt and embarrassing, as is the final narration that is nothing but consummate corn-pone. The storage of hazardous waste in a formerly hazardous to your health tobacco facility is the one and only irony and the film is just uninspired.