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Junebug [DVD] [2005]
enlarge	Director: Phil Morrison Actors: Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Benjamin McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Celia Weston Studio: Eureka Entertainment Ltd Category: DVD List Price: ~~£17.99~~ Buy New: £1.97 as of 23/11/2009 03:02 GMT details You Save: £16.02 (89%) New (27) Used (13) from £1.27 Seller: helgy Rating: 9 reviews Sales Rank: 15646 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 106 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060000402193 ASIN: B000EF5SZ8 Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Release Date: August 21, 2006 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next » Subtle, Bittersweet and Moving March 1, 2008 David Rush (Glasgow, Scotland) 23 out of 36 found this review helpful Junebug is a film that takes its time. It moves slowly through its simple narrative - a young woman who is newly married meets her husband's family for the first time while trying to negotiate an art deal close their home - and builds up its characters and their thoughts and feelings effectively. br / br /Embeth Davidtz stars as Madeleine, an art dealer who marries George, a man from North Carolina. Six months later, she is trying to negotiate a deal with an eccentric painter from her husband's home town. The pair decide to kill two birds with one stone and visit the in-laws for the first time. This proves to be a daunting experience for Madeleine as the family seem uncaring about the visit and everyone apart from her awe struck sister-in-law Ashley (Amy Adams) is uninterested in her. br / br /Ashley is nine months pregnant and ready to burst, although her husband Johnny does not seem to care about her or the baby. He is distracted and rude and it is soon revealed that he is still trying to pass high school - despite being married and in his early twenties - and get his diploma. Madeleine tries to help him but he soon echoes the rest of the family's feelings that she is an outsider trying to barge in to the family and flaunt her superior intellect and breeding. br / br /The film is a wonderful snapshot of southern life and is so intimate and real that it is easy to forget that these are actors and not genuine people. The most realistic portrayal can be found in Ashley, who is played brilliantly by Amy Adams, who has recently found fame as Giselle in Enchanted. br / br /The film centres around her wonderful supporting performance as the pregnant Ashley, who is married to the obnoxious and resentful Johnny. She is the heart of the film, always happy and smiling despite her husband - and the rest of his prickly family's - shortcomings. She is enchanted by Madeleine from the moment of her arrival, constantly asking questions and proclaiming that the two will be best friends forever. br / br /Adams was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance but lost out to Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener. She is so endearing and tragic and seems to represent everything that the rest of the family would like to be: open, chatty and happy. It is a wonder that the film was not nominated for Best Original Screenplay too, as it is a skilful observation of life in a fragile family and a true gem of a film. excellent November 2, 2006 T. Rowell (Cymru. Britain) 4 out of 12 found this review helpful brilliant, clever, first class acting, not your typical american cinema unfortunately. watch it. Intelligent, subtle and beautiful July 25, 2006 P. Bennett (Monmouth, UK) 26 out of 37 found this review helpful This is a wonderfully brave and unusual film in that we have the interaction between the 'red' and 'blue' states of the usa without either trying to change or revolutionise the other's way of life. Her, city-slicker 'outsider' art dealer Madeleine meets her inlaws in north carolina. What we expect is the usual prodigal son returning with new wife, and either the prodigal son to reject new wife and go back to his old ways, or for the new life to clash horrifically and destructively. Blissfully, this is not what we get in Junebug. As an outsider art dealer, madeleine is uniquely placed to let us stand shoulder to shoulder with her as an observer of this small town southern family and the emotional relationships and states that seem so foreign to her and anyone not familiar with that way of life in the audience too. We are passive, madeleine has no influence on the characters, and neither do we. What this means is that we get to, for once, see city and country as different states not in contention. one isnt shown to be better or triumphant. Instead we try to work out the nuances of the seemingly introspective and repressed characters in real time as madeleine herself is trying to. i wont spoil it by describing the simultaneous pain and harmony that is revealed in each character, but will say that the relationship between the younger brother and his child-like wife (amy adams - who was nominated for an oscar for her performance) is particularly well-written; the younger sibling disabled by his brother's return home to be at ease until his car has left the driveway, and the small tokens of love and fondness that in modern urban society seem unimportant that take over dialogue and grand gestures. brilliant - watch it! Beautiful August 28, 2006 Jules (Tyneside) 13 out of 20 found this review helpful A beautiful, emotionally intense film about the intricate workings of a family in America's southern religious belt. br /Junebug is subtle in its approach and relies on the excellent acting of each of the family members to express the deep and unspoken feeling that each of them has. Amy Adams shines as young mum-to-be Ashley, while Benjamin McKenzie plays the character of a tormented husband, brother and son superbly. br /Highly recommended. So Real, So Effective....., July 4, 2007 Jenny J.J.I. (That Lives in Northern Nevada) 2 out of 5 found this review helpful Everyone's been invited to a weekend at a friends house or spent a couple day's outside their own "world" I would think. This movie seems to attempt to capture that strange realm when you're at the mercy of the people and lives around you. It does this primarily through the eye's of a newly married, well traveled, socially confident and successful woman traveling 1000 miles south for work and also to meet her new husbands Methodist family. br / br /The film is sometimes quirky, sometimes stark, and very naked in painting and seemingly portraying uneven and unfamiliar worlds. The scenes often have a very bare and vulnerable feel to them. The acting is great and the filmmaker involves the viewer intimately in every shot. This is a "day in the life of" kind of film which I am usually a sucker for so I found it engaging. Each person you meet is different and interesting. You don't really know where the story is going but you don't care because each scene commands your attention. Many scenes seem explicit in their nature with the indiscriminate snippets of the characters presented to us sitting alone, having sex, going to church, or buttering toast. br / br /One person reviewing this film said this film could be summed up best using a couple lines from it's script in which the new couple meet for the first time in an art gallery. female lead: "So, you like this one?"... Male: "Yeah, it makes me happy... but I'm going to buy the UFO." br / br /Whether or not you like the film will depend on your own interpretation and the overall theme or category this film should be in is unidentifiable. The fact that a script like this can still find funding, get made and find an audience (no matter how small) is very encouraging. br / br / Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next »

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