The River Pirates

Imagine a Deep South in which Faulkner, Capote, and Tennessee Williams were rewritten by Sheriff Andy of Mayberry, and you'll have some idea of the endurance test awaiting you in THE RIVER PIRATES. Sweeter than a barrel of Mint Juleps, this is a STAND BY ME, Y'ALL remembrance of things past in which the insights are specious and the memories seem second-hand, borrowed from better scribes.

Based on the autobiographical Good Ole Boy: A Delta Childhood, the film follows the adventures of a rag-tag band of imps in Yazoo, Mississippi as they answer radio contest questions, frolic in the swimmin' hole, and check out movie matinees. The placid surface of Yazoo...