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Jayne Mansfield's Car

  • 2012
  • R
  • 2h 2m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
3.3K
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Kevin Bacon, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Patrick, John Patrick Amedori, Katherine LaNasa, Frances O'Connor, Shawnee Smith, Ray Stevenson, Ron White, Marshall Allman, Carissa Fowler, and Karli Barnett in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?
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Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose tru... Read allAlabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?

  • Director
    • Billy Bob Thornton
  • Writers
    • Billy Bob Thornton
    • Tom Epperson
  • Stars
    • Tippi Hedren
    • Kevin Bacon
    • Ray Stevenson
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    6.2/10
    3.3K
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    • Director
      • Billy Bob Thornton
    • Writers
      • Billy Bob Thornton
      • Tom Epperson
    • Stars
      • Tippi Hedren
      • Kevin Bacon
      • Ray Stevenson
    • 33User reviews
    • 64Critic reviews
    • 48Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Jayne Mansfield's Car: The Car
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    Jayne Mansfield's Car: Take Him Away
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    Jayne Mansfield's Car: What Changed?
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    Robert Duvall and Billy Bob Thornton in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Robert Duvall in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Billy Bob Thornton and Katherine LaNasa in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    John Hurt, Billy Bob Thornton, Katherine LaNasa, Frances O'Connor, and Ray Stevenson in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Robert Duvall and John Hurt in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Kevin Bacon and Robert Duvall in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Kevin Bacon, Billy Bob Thornton, and Frances O'Connor in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    John Hurt in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Robert Duvall and John Hurt in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Robert Duvall and Billy Bob Thornton in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Robert Duvall and John Hurt in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)
    Kevin Bacon and Billy Bob Thornton in Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)

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    Tippi Hedren
    Tippi Hedren
    • Naomi Caldwell
    • (uncredited)
    Kevin Bacon
    Kevin Bacon
    • Carroll Caldwell
    Ray Stevenson
    Ray Stevenson
    • Phillip Bedford
    Robert Patrick
    Robert Patrick
    • Jimbo Caldwell
    Robert Duvall
    Robert Duvall
    • Jim Caldwell
    John Hurt
    John Hurt
    • Kingsley Bedford
    Billy Bob Thornton
    Billy Bob Thornton
    • Skip Caldwell
    Frances O'Connor
    Frances O'Connor
    • Camilla Bedford
    Katherine LaNasa
    Katherine LaNasa
    • Donna Baron
    Marshall Allman
    Marshall Allman
    • Alan Caldwell
    Shawnee Smith
    Shawnee Smith
    • Vicky Caldwell
    John Patrick Amedori
    John Patrick Amedori
    • Mickey Caldwell
    Ron White
    Ron White
    • Neal Baron
    Irma P. Hall
    Irma P. Hall
    • Dorothy Lambert
    Carissa Fowler
    Carissa Fowler
    • April Baron
    • (as Carissa Capobianco)
    Karli Barnett
    Karli Barnett
    • Autumn Baron
    Wester Joseph
    • Connell Lambert…
    Melody Smith
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    • Director
      • Billy Bob Thornton
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      • Billy Bob Thornton
      • Tom Epperson
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    • Trivia
      Mariska Hargitay (the daughter of Jayne Mansfield), who was in the back seat when the crash killed her mother, said that she found the name of this movie "horrible" and wished they had asked her permission to use this title beforehand.
    • Goofs
      Alabama did not issue front license plates in 1969. The numbers shown are not correct for Alabama plates.
    • Quotes

      Skip Caldwell: I just want to fly up there - in the quiet and still. I was a navy pilot. How 'bout that? It wasn't quiet and still though. It was loud and crazy and scary. But you went up every time you were supposed to. Did what you were supposed to do. And I went up with three minds. One mind was always thinking, "One way or the other, I'm gonna get back. I'm gonna make it back." And then another mind was always thinking, "This is probably gonna be the last day of my life." And then your third mind was right down the middle, and didn't think about anything. It wouldn't let the other two in.

      Skip Caldwell: You know, people say they don't like to talk about war because it brings up the bad memories and nightmares and everything. I don't believe that. I believe they don't talk about it because nobody wants to hear it.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Evening Urgant: Dmitry Kharatyan/Ekaterina Skulkina (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me)
      Written by David Waggoner, Larry Wiegand and Richard Wiegand

      Performed by Crow

      By arrangement with musicsupervisor.com, Yuggoth Music (BMI)

    User reviews33

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    8/10
    Fathers, Sons, War, Death
    I was a bit shocked at how much negative press Billy Bob Thornton's latest effort has received in the mainstream critical media. It's been called racist, homophobic, grating, and stereotypically one-note. Perhaps these reviewers couldn't take the time to appreciate the delicate patina glazed onto the top of this heavy Southern Gothic brew, not only by some stellar star turns, but from Thornton and Tom Epperson's sly, knowing script that bravely refuses to villainize any of the array of characters, no matter how crass or pig-headed their behavior first appears.

    I have to admit, I was a bit skeptical of Thornton when he first appeared with the break-out "Sling Blade," even though the short it was culled from was anything but slight. I thought he'd be one of these rural "artistes" who falls back on sentimentality and clichéd characters when he didn't have much to say. Jayne Mansfield's Car, however, proves that glib assessment was dead, dead wrong.

    The strongest aspect of this film is it's script, which does what every extraordinary movie does well: drops you into another place and time that---at first glance, anyway---you'd ordinarily shrug your shoulders and walk away from, then gives you every reason you shouldn't: it's populated with people who are confused, conflicted, and multi-faceted to the point where they don't seem to recognize each other any more, even after living in the same house for decades.

    The casting is impeccable and Thornton has an incredibly light-touch with all of them. Robert Duvall does what he does best: providing the anchoring figure of Jim Senior with an authority and gravitas that he can express with a lift of an eyebrow. His three sons are wrought over a nice spectrum of angst: Thornton's Skip, the ne'er do well middle son who did everything right but was always a bit too "off" to be dad's shining star. That honor went to Jimbo (Jim Jr., a ferocious Robert Patrick) who played closer to the mold but never saw combat as Skip and Carroll (Kevin Bacon) did, thus considering himself a failure. Skip and Carroll live with scars and resentments from their own tours of duty in WWII and Vietnam, respectively and their anti-war sentiments continue to draw them further from Duvall, in every sense of the word.

    Even though the crux of the drama revolves around the return of Duvall's wayward recently deceased wife (Tippi Hedren, a pretty darn good corpse), who divorced him for Englishmen John Hurt 15 years before, the canvas of this film is really about the tortured relations between fathers and sons, and the cost of war and death and what it "means to be a man." The War angle is particularly intriguing in that it plays out in the heart of Alabama in the late-sixties, where the malingering odor of Vietnam melts into the residues of a century of warfare, the star of which is the ghost of the Civil War.

    The culture-clash aspect is amusing and well-played, but not even remotely why you should see the movie. The script ensures you know the characters so well, that all that formulaic hicks-meet-Brits stuff quickly goes by the wayside.

    Thornton and Epperson's script gives each character a suitable bravura moment and most hit them out of the park, in particular Thornton, in a touching monologue delivered to Frances O'Connor in the forest and Bacon, whose hippie malcontent faces off with Duvall with quiet dignity and aplomb.

    This is not a film to hang on for forced drama, but it's one you'll have a difficult time turning away from and an even harder time leaving, from the place where you so unceremoniously were dropped.
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    • Dec 16, 2013

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 20, 2013 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Russia
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Infierno en Alabama
    • Filming locations
      • Cedartown, Georgia, USA
    • Production companies
      • AR Films
      • Aldamisa Entertainment
      • Media Talent Group
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $14,836
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $9,320
      • Sep 15, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $79,178
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 2 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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