Credited cast: | |||
Michael Tully | ... | Cornelius Rawlings | |
Robert Longstreet | ... | Ezra Rawlings | |
Onur Tukel | ... | Amos Rawlings | |
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Jim Willingham | ... | Wilbur Cunningham |
Rachel Korine | ... | Savannah | |
John Maringouin | ... | Preacher | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Brian Kotzur | ||
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Mark Darby Robinson | ... | Red "Rooster" Rippington |
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Jeffrey T. Williams | ... | Wealthy golfer |
Suddenly and without explanation, Cornelius Rawlings, The Athlete (Tully), returns to his family's Tennessee farm eighteen years after he disappeared. His parents have died, but his two brothers -- Ezra, The Matriarch (Robert Longstreet) and Amos, The Artist (Onur Tukel) -- have continued their isolated, idiosyncratic lives on the family farm. The brothers receive the phenomenally bearded Cornelius' return with equal parts bewilderment and joy, but he remains a mysterious presence in their midst, slipping away occasionally to hustle cash as an unlikely ringer on the basketball and tennis courts. A tentative balance is struck, even as much remains unsettled and unsaid among the brothers... until a sleazy figure from their past returns, turning their world on its head. (Eric Allen Hatch, MARYLAND FILM FESTIVAL) Written by Anonymous
Original story, starting with the lost brother who comes home after many years. Gradually, several other people appear, all of them adding to the mix of unusual characters. Funny things happen from the start, and continue through the end. Apart from the guy with the metal detector finding various interesting items around the house, also some proverbial skeletons come out of the closet.
Before this one I attended a screening in the Rotterdam filmfestival 2011, that puzzled me what it was all about. Luckily, this film resurrected me, and it gave me a wonderful hilarious 80 minutes. No more needs to be said. Only that I'm still wondering where the vicar (was he really one?) came from, and how he fits in the picture.