| A Poignant and Bittersweet Story of Family |  |
Chicago art dealer Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) has the opportunity to sign up a Southern primitive artist so she and her new husband George (Alessandro Nivola) take the trip as a chance for Madeleine to also meet George's family for the first time.
Though the sophisticated Madeleine is very sweet and not the least bit uppity, she isn't quite prepared for the doings and expectations of this Southern family.
George's mother Peg (Celia Weston) is a strong and judgemental woman while his father Eugene (Scott Wilson) is mostly withdrawn into silence and shadow. George's bubbly, young, and very pregnant sister-in-law Ashley (Amy Adams) is an enthusiastic, loving, supportive, optimistic little button who is thrilled to have another younger woman in the house to talk with.
Ashley's husband, George's brother Johnny (Ben McKenzie), is unmotivated and bitter about being stuck living with his parents, being married and expecting a baby any day.
I appreciate that director Phil Morrison did not portray the Southern family as bumpkins nor the worldly Madeleine as snobbish. They all end up learning valuable life lessons from each other in one way or another.
Rated R for sexual content and language.
viewed Jan-2006
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