First-time feature director Phil Morrison's sharp, sly and sneakily funny film is chock-full of the same clichés that riddle hundreds of coarse, frenetic comedies about crazy-as-a-bedbug Southerners and snooty Yankees. But Morrison and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan put an unusual spin on the old chestnuts, playing them straight — well, almost straight — and letting the subtle, knotty humanity shine through the surface tics and traits. Following a whirlwind romance, Chicago gallery-owner Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a British diplomat's daughter who spent her childhood hopscotching between Japan and Africa, marries North Carolina-native George (Alessandro Nivola), who ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
107 mins