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The Corndog Man (1999)
Great, original movie with a killer soundtrack
This is a great movie on a bunch of levels. First of all, Jerry Bruckheimer, eat your heart out. You don't need $200 million and CGI explosions to make a good movie. Second, whatever you are expecting of this movie will be wrong. I try to explain it to my friends as a man moving to a small South Carolina town, and messing with this old redneck on the phone. I know how scintillating that sounds, but once you see it, you will get it. It is laugh out loud funny at many points. You are highly entertained, but puzzled throughout the movie, and then the ending ties it all together in a way that hits you hard emotionally in a completely unexpected way. It also manages the social commentary on racism in a roundabout non-preachy way that maximizes its effectiveness. As a native small town southerner, the atmosphere created is dead on accurate, and the great soundtrack of blues music puts the perfect finishing touches on. My friend made me watch this movie, and now I recommend it to everyone I know (except the people who saw biker boyz, if you liked that movie, please never watch Corn Dog Man). Watch this movie, you will be exchanging Ace and Penrod comments on the back and forth on the phone with all your friends for months.