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Genre "Americana" Movies (showing 1 to 32 from 32 total)

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A Christmas Story (1983) Genre: Comedy Drama, Americana, Domestic Comedy, Family-Oriented Comedy, Holiday Film. Director: Bob Clark. Actors: Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz, R.D. Robb, Tedde Moore, Zack Ward, Yano Anaya, Les Carlson, Chad Dowdell, Colin Fox, Jeff Gillen, Paul Hubbard, Jim Hunter, Patty Johnson, Fred Lee Own, Dwayne McLean, Jean Shepherd, Tommy Lee Wallace. Storyline: Nine years after the Yuletide slasher flick Black Christmas, Porky's director Bob Clark once again took on the holiday genre, switching from gasps to laughs with A Christmas Story. Adapted from a memoir by humorist Jean Shepherd (who narrates), the film centers on Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), a young boy living in 1940s Indiana, desperately yearning for a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas. Des ...

A League of Their Own (1992) Genre: Comedy Drama, Sports Drama, Ensemble Film, Americana, Feminist Film. Director: Penny Marshall. Actors: Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Madonna, Jon Lovitz, Rosie O'Donnell, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, Megan Cavanagh, Renee Coleman, Ann Cusack, Anne Ramsay, Tracy Reiner, Bitty Schram, Freddie Simpson, Bill Pullman, Pauline Brailsford, Justin Scheller, Eddie Jones, Lynn Cartwright, Rae Allen, Eunice Anderson, Blair Baron, Douglas Blakeslee, Shirley Burkovich, Kathleen Butler, Ray Chapman, Larissa Collins, Laurel Cronin, Don S. Davis, Dolores "Pickles" Dries, Marvin Einhorn, Barbara Erwin, Stephen Feagley, Brenda Ferrari, Brian Flannery, David Franks, Brian Boru Gleeson, R.M. Haley, Lisa Hand, Joette Hodgen, Mark Holton, Ryan Howell, Vera Johnson, Cheryl Jones, Janet Jones, Cherry Jones, Robin Knight, Joe Krowka, Téa Leoni, Ellen Lewis, Amanda Mackey-Johnson, Stephen Mailer, Kathleen Marshall, Eugenia McLin, Eddie Mekka, Betty Miller, Shelly Niemeyer, Ryan Olsen, Patti Pelton, Barbara Pilavin Gelber, Connie Pounds-Taylor, Sally Rutherford, Wantland L. Sandel, Jr., Lita Scmitt, Harry Shearer, Kelli Simpkins, Joey Slotnick, Gregory Sporleder, Robert Stanton, Sharon Szmidt, Neezer Tarleton, Amanda Walker, Brenda Watson, Ellie Weingardt, Alan Wilder, Patricia J. Wilson. Storyline: The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World War II. The league flourished until after World War II, when, with the men's return, the league was consigned to oblivion. Director Penny Marshall and screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel re-create the wartime era when women' ...

A Perfect World (1993) Genre: Crime, Drama, Crime Drama, Americana. Director: Clint Eastwood. Actors: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther, Keith Szarabajka, Leo Burmeister, Paul Hewitt, Bradley Whitford, Ray McKinnon, Jennifer Griffin, Wayne de Hart, Linda Hart, Mary Alice, Margaret Bowman, Rodger Boyce, Connie Cooper, Darryl Cox, Cameron Finley, Lucy Lee Flippin, Gabriel Folse, Tony Frank, James W. Gavin, Ed Geldart, Gil Glasgow, Vernon Grote, Nik Hagler, George Haynes, Craig Hosking, Phyllis Huffman, John Hussey, John M. Jackson, James Jeter, Dennis Letts, Marietta Marich, Bruce McGill, Gary Moody, George Orrison, Marco Perella, Elizabeth Ruscio, Brandon Smith, Mark Voges, Woody Watson, Kevin Jamal Woods. Storyline: Clint Eastwood, hot off of his Academy Award win for Unforgiven, directed this small character study, appearing in the guise of a cops-and-robbers action picture. The film takes place during the fall of 1963. Eight-year old Phillip Perry (T.J. Lowther), the son of a devout Jehovah's Witness mother, is staying home while all the other children are out trick-or-treating. But then prison escapee Butc ...

A River Runs Through It (1992) Genre: Drama, Family Drama, Americana, Coming-of-Age. Director: Robert Redford. Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg, Stephen Shellen, Nicole Burdette, Susan Traylor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Vann Gravage, Chuck Adamson, Philip A. Braun, Rob Cox, David Creamer, Michael Cudlitz, Byron Dingman, MacIntyre Dixon, Jim Dunkin, Hawk Forssell, D. Gorton, William Hootkins, Don Jeffery, Prudence Johnson, Cecily Johnson, Rex Kendall, Margot Kiser, Martina Kreidl, Jack Kroll, Tracy Mayfield, Anne Merrem, Fred Oakland, Lincoln Quesenberry, Robert Redford, Madonna Reubens, Arnold Richardson, Kathy Scharler, Jess Schwidde, Caleb Shiff, Buck Simmonds, Noah Snyder, Jacob Snyder, Chuck Tweed. Storyline: Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, the older son in his family, who takes his school work and writing a bit too serious ...

American Graffiti (1973) Genre: Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Americana, Teen Movie, Ensemble Film, Period Film. Director: George Lucas. Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Scott Beach, Jana Bellan, Jim Bohan, John Bracci, John Brent, Debbie Celiz, Del Close, James Cranna, Tim Crowley, Charles Dorsett, Jan Dunn, Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids, Harrison Ford, Beau Gentry, Ed Greenberg, Herby and the Heartbeats, Bo Hopkins, Terry McGovern, George Meyer, Joseph Miksak, Charles A. Murphy, Al Nalbandian, William M. Niven, Manuel Padilla, Mackenzie Phillips, Christopher Pray, Kathleen Quinlan, Susan Richardson, Debra Scott, Suzanne Somers, Joe Spano, Lynne Stewart, Ron Vincent, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr., Jan Wilson, Wolfman Jack. Storyline: It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are Steve (Ron Howard) and Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy Terry "The Toad" (Charles Martin Smith), who scores a dream date with blonde Debbie (Candy Clark); and John (Paul Le Mat ), a 2 ...

Back to the Future (1985) Genre: Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Comedy, Americana. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson, James Tolkan, Claudia Wells, Wendie Jo Sperber, Marc McClure, George DiCenzo, Jamie Abbott, Norman Alden, Ivy Bethune, Maia Brewton, Katherine Britton, David Harold Brown, Lee Brownfield, Elizabeth Chambers, Jeffrey Jay Cohen, J.J. Cohen, Robert de Lapp, Richard L. Duran, George "Buck" Flower, Lisa Freeman, Donald Fullilove, Courtney Gains, Johnny Green, Paul Hansen, Will Hare, Deborah Harmon, Jason Hervey, Cristen Kauffman, Robert Krantz, Huey Lewis and the News, Jason Marin, Lee McCain, Boyd "Red" Morgan, Read Morgan, Jeff O'Haco, Sachi Parker, Karen Petrasek, Elsa Raven, Gary Riley, Casey Siemaszko, Tommy Thomas, Lloyd L. Tolbert, Harry Waters, Jr., Granville "Danny" Young, Billy Zane. Storyline: Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must also endure the acrimonious relationship between his nerdy father (Crispin Glover) and his lovely mother (Lea Thompson), who in turn suffer the bullying of middle-aged jerk Biff (Thomas F. Wilson), Marty's dad's supervisor. The one balm in Marty's life ...

Bulworth (1998) Genre: Comedy, Political Satire, Media Satire, Americana. Director: Warren Beatty. Actors: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, Isaiah Washington, Joshua Malina, Christine Baranski, Richard Sarafian, Amiri Baraka, Sean Astin, Laurie Metcalf, Wendell Pierce, Michele Morgan, Ariyan Johnson, Graham Beckel, Nora Dunn, Jackie Gayle, Helen Martin. Storyline: Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), and stars in this political satire, a comedy-drama about a U.S. senator who decides to start speaking the truth. Despondent California Sen. Jay Bulworth (Beatty), up for re-election, is disillusioned by the usual campaign banalities; his marriage to Constance (Christine Baranski) seems equally hollow. I ...

Daltry Calhoun (2005) Genre: Comedy Drama, Americana. Director: Katrina Holden Bronson. Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Juliette Lewis, Elizabeth Banks, Kick Gurry, David Koechner, Sophie Traub, Andrew Prince, Beth Grant, James Parks, Matthew Sharp. Storyline: When seed and sod entrepreneur Daltry Calhoun's (Johnny Knoxville) abandoned ex-girlfriend shows up on his doorstep with the daughter he never knew he had, the reformed ladies' man finds out that you can never truly escape your past — even when it seems you may have no future. Calhoun is a local celebrity and self-made entrepreneur who made a name for himself by selling locally produced ...

Dave (1993) Genre: Comedy, Political Satire, Americana. Director: Ivan Reitman. Actors: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, Ben Kingsley, Charles Grodin, Faith Prince, Dawn Arnemann, Parley Baer, Bonnie Bartlett, Lexie Bigham, Frank Birney, Dan Butler, Michael Chinich, Paul Collins, Tom Dugan, Robin Gammell, Stefan Gierasch, Wendy Gordon, Charles Hallahan, Tom Harkin, Heather Hewitt, Bonnie Hunt, Bernard Kalb, Larry King, Tom Kurlander, Aaron Michael Lacey, Jay Leno, Laura Linney, Ralph Manza, Sarah Marshall, George Martin, Chris Matthews, John McLaughlin, Alba Oms, Richard Reeves, Catherine Reitman, Jason Reitman, Geneviève Robert, Stephen Root, Gary Ross, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Simon, Alan Simpson, Anna Deavere Smith, Ben Stein, Oliver Stone, Kathleen Sullivan, Helen A. Thomas, Bonnie Timmermann, Nina Totenberg, Sander Vanocuer, Robert Walsh, Peter White, Steve Witting. Storyline: The ghost of Frank Capra must have smiled when he saw Dave, an amusing and effective update of one of Capra's favorite themes — the scrupulously honest little guy who becomes a force for good against a corrupt system. Dave Kovic (Kevin Kline) runs an employment agency and seems to genuinely enjoy finding work for people who need it. He also bears a striking resemblance to the president o ...

Doc Hollywood (1991) Genre: Comedy, Romance, Comedy of Manners, Romantic Comedy, Americana. Director: Michael Caton-Jones. Actors: Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Barnard Hughes, Woody Harrelson, David Ogden Stiers, Bridget Fonda, Frances Sternhagen, George Hamilton, Mel Winkler, Roberts Blossom, Tom Lacy, Macon McCalman, Raye Birk, Edye Byrde, Eric Bechtel, Dan Bell, Roxanne Benseman, Janis Bjorkland, Douglas Brush, Vince Burnes, Michael Caton-Jones, Daniel Cerny, Michael Chapman, Dan Charles, Cristi Conaway, Darrell Jay Cook, William Cowart, Ted Davis, Amanda Junette Donatelli, Marion Dougherty, David Dupre, Billy Gillespie, Karen Hartman-Golden, Owens Hill, Martin Alan Johnson, Ken Josefsberg, Emily Lester, Jordan Lund, Melanie MacQueen, Adele Malis-Morey, Helen Martin, Kelly Minter, Robert Munns, Kathy Poling, Kelly Roland, Kirsche Smith, Barry Sobel, Amzie Strickland, David Thompkins, David H. "Dutch" van Dalsem, K.T. Vogt, Tim Winters. Storyline: A big city doctor is stranded in a small rural town, where he finds love, professional challenges, and a pet pig, in this comedy. Fresh out of residence at a Washington D.C. hospital, hot-shot plastic surgeon Ben Stone (Michael J. Fox) hops in his Porsche and is headed for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. However, Ben accidentally plows into a fence in Grady, South C ...

Easy Rider (1969) Genre: Drama, Road Movie, Biker Film, Americana. Director: Dennis Hopper. Actors: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Robert Walker, Jr., Luana Anders, Karen Black, Luke Askew, Robert Ball, Toni Basil, Warren Finnerty, Lea Marmer, Beatriz Monteil, Michael Pataki, Carmen Phillips, Sabrina Scharf, Sandy Wyeth, Antonio Mendoza, Phil Spector. Storyline: Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road to find America in Dennis Hopper's anti-establishment classic. After a major cocaine sale to an L.A. connection (Phil Spector), free-wheeling potheads Billy (Hopper) and Wyatt, aka Captain America (Peter Fonda, who also produced), motor eastward to party at Mardi Gras before "retiring" to Florida with the riches concealed in Wyatt's star ...

Election (1999) Genre: Comedy, Americana, Satire. Director: Alexander Payne. Actors: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein, Jessica Campbell, Mark Harelik, Phil Reeves, Molly Hagan, Delaney Driscoll, Colleen Camp, Frankie Igrassia, Matt Malloy, Jeanine Jackson, Holmes Osborne, Jeannie Brayman, Jillian Crane, Nick D'Agosto, James Devney, Amy Falcone, Matt Golden, Matt Justesen, Larry Kaiser, Nick Kenny, Heather Koenig, Jonathan Marion, Emily Martin, Loren Nelson, L. Carmen Novoa, Jason Paige, Joel Parks, Marilyn Tipp, Brian Tobin, David Wenzel, Christa Young. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Fast Food Nation (2006) Genre: Comedy Drama, Americana, Ensemble Film. Director: Richard Linklater. Actors: Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Dano, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Ashley Johnson, Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, Esai Morales, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ana Claudia Talancón, Wilmer Valderrama, Bruce Willis, Michael Conway, Francisco Rosales, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Roger Cudney, Glen Powell Jr., Cherami Leigh, Juan Carlos Serrán, Yareli Arizmendi, Matt Hensarling, Mileidy Moron Marchant, Dakota Edwards, Raquel Gavia, Hugo Perez, Ellar Salmon, Helen Merino, Erinn Allison, Barbara Chisholm, Larizza Salcido Gameros, Lana Dieterich, John Scott Horton, Mitch Baker, Aaron Himelstein, Frank Ertl, Marco Perella, Armando Hernandez, Monica Cano Mascorro, Carlos Adrian Romero Ayala, Humberto E. Velez Sanchez, Cora Cardona. Storyline: Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, and Luis Guzman. Mickey's is the most popular fast-food chain in America, ...

Forrest Gump (1994) Genre: Comedy Drama, Period Film, Americana. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field, Michael Conner Humphreys, Hanna R. Hall, Joe Alaskey, Sam Anderson, Peter Bannon, Geoffrey Blake, Charles Boswell, Stephen Wesley Bridgewater, David Brisbin, Michael Burgess, Dick Cavett, Hallie D'Amore, Kevin Davis, Peter Dobson, Nora Dunfee, Siobhan Fallon, Don Fischer, John Galt, Al Harrington, Harold G. Herthum, Mike Jolly, George Kelly, Aaron Michael Lacey, Ellen Lewis, Jason McGuire, Byron Minns, Afemo Omilami, Haley Joel Osment, Bob Penny, Paul Raczkowski, Brett Rice, Gary Robinson, Sonny Shroyer, Mary Ellen Trainor, Valentino, John Voldstad, Joe Washington, Jeffrey Winner. Storyline: "Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely without trying, Forrest teache ...

Giant (1956) Genre: Drama, Americana, Modern Western. Director: George Stevens. Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Withers, Sal Mineo, Chill Wills, Dennis Hopper, Judith Evelyn, Paul Fix, Rod Taylor, Earl Holliman, Robert Nichols, Alexander Scourby, Fran Bennett, Charles Watts, Elsa Cardenas, Carolyn Craig, Monte Hale, Mary Ann Edwards, Victor Millan, Mickey Simpson, Pilar del Rey, Maurice Jara, Noreen Nash, Napoleon Whiting, Ray Whitley, Tina Menard, Fernando Alvarado, Eddie Baker, Barbara Barrie, Ray Bennett, Richard Bishop, Tex Driscoll, George Dunn, Juney Ellis, Ella Ethridge, John Garcia, Maxine Gates, Bill Hale, Mark Hamilton, Steven Kay, Paul Kruger, Charles Meredith, Tom Monroe, Julian Rivero, Slim Talbot, Guy Teague, Max "Alibi" Terhune, Felipe Turich, Natividad Vacio, Rush Williams, Sheb Wooley. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Hands on a Hard Body (1997) Genre: Culture & Society , Americana. Director: S. R. Bindler. Actors: Storyline: This humorous documentary captures contestants in a 1995 competition held annually in a Longview, Texas, car dealership parking lot. A brand new Nissan pickup truck is the prize won by the person who can keep a gloved hand held against the truck for the longest period of time (with a 15-minute break every six hours and a five-minute break every hour). Six contestants drop out during the first 24 h ...

My Dog Skip (2000) Genre: Children's/Family, Childhood Drama, Period Film, Americana, Animal Picture. Director: Jay W. Russell. Actors: Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Caitlin Wachs, Bradley Coryell, Daylan Honeycutt, Cody Linley, Peter Crombie, Clint Howard, Harry Connick, Jr., Enzo the Dog, Moose the Dog, Mark Beech, Michael Berkshire, Joann Blankenship, Owen Boutwell, Courtney Brown, Bill Butler, Nate Bynum, Polly Craig, Chaon Cross, Susan Carol Davis, Stacie Doublin, Lucille Ewing, Jim Fraiser, Graham Gordy, Stuart Greenwell, Winston Groom, Hunter Hays, Harry Hood, Jerome Jerald, Nathaniel Lee, David Pickens, Elizabeth Rice, Katherine Shoulders, Cannon Smith, John Stiritz, John M. Sullivan II, Gordon Swaim, James Thweat, Jordan Williams, Wayne Wimberly, Brian Witt, Josh Yates. Storyline: The popular memoir by Pulitzer prize-winning author Willie Morris became this family comedy-drama about a boy and his dog. Young Willie Morris (Frankie Muniz) is a shy eight-year-old in 1942 Yazoo, MS, who is more comfortable reading than playing sports. A target for local bullies, Willie's only real pal is his older next-door neighbor Dink Jenkins (Luke Wilson), once the town's living sports lege ...

Pleasantville (1998) Genre: Comedy, Americana, Fantasy Comedy. Director: Gary Ross. Actors: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh, Reese Witherspoon, Don Knotts, Paul Walker, Marley Shelton, Jane Kaczmarek, Giuseppe Andrews, Jenny Lewis, Marissa Ribisi. Storyline: Gary Ross, Oscar nominated for his Dave and Big screenplays, made his directorial debut with this comedy. The cheerful '50s TV sitcom "Pleasantville" is revived in the '90s for a loyal cable audience. One devoted fan is shy suburban teen David Wagner (Tobey Maguire), who has an almost obsessive interest in the series. Living with his divorced mother (Jane Kaczmarek), David sometimes has ...

Remember the Titans (2000) Genre: Drama, Sports Drama, Americana, Message Movie. Director: Boaz Yakin. Actors: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Donald Faison, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Ethan Suplee, Nicole Ari Parker, Hayden Panettiere, Kip Pardue, Craig Kirkwood, Catherine Bosworth, Burgess Jenkins, Earl C. Poitier, Ryan Gosling, Matthew Adams, Dan Albright, Steve Barnes, Shanda Besler, Sharon Blackwood, Preston Brant, C. Stephen Browder, David Chandley, Kelly C. Cheston, E.Y. Coley, Andrew Collins, Ronald L. Connor, Shawn Cummings, Kevin Dankosky, David de Vries, Ryan Duncan, David Dwyer, Tom Elliott, J. Don Ferguson, Andy Francis, Richard Fullerton, Neal Ghant, Stuart Greer, Rory Griffin, Jim Grimshaw, Marion Guyot, B. Keith Harmon, Jameel Jackson, David Jefferson Jr., Krysten Leigh Jones, Rhubarb Jones, Paula Claire Jones, Walker Jones, Walter Benjamin Keister, Ryan Kowalske, Derick Marshall, Steve Martin, Andrew Masset, Scott Miles, Marcus M. Moore, Bob Neal, Tom Nowicki, Afemo Omilami, Randy D. Patman Jr., Michael Pniewski, John Wesley Register, Ric Reitz, Brett Rice, Michael Rouby, Scott Slade, Courtney James Stewart, Ray Stoney, Tom Turbiville, Lou Walker, Tim Ware, Michael Weatherly, Jemal L. Webb, Greg Alan Williams. Storyline: A high school football coach finds himself fighting for stakes much higher than the State Championship in this drama based on actual events. In 1971, a court order forces three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia (two white, one African-American), to integrate their student bodies and faculties for the first time. As a result, Coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton), longtime head coach of the T.C. Willia ...

Shotgun Stories (2007) Genre: Drama, Americana, Psychological Drama, Family Drama. Director: Jeff Nichols. Actors: Michael Shannon, Douglas Ligon, Barlow Jacobs, Michael Abbott, Jr., Travis Smith, Lynsee Provence, David Rhodes, Glenda Pannell, G. Alan Wilkins, Natalie Canerday, Coley Canpany, Cole Hendrixson. Storyline: Two families linked by the same father explode into a violent rivalry in this independent Southern gothic drama, the first feature from director Jeff Nichols. Cleaman Hayes lived and died in Little Rock, AR, where he had seven sons by two different women. After wedding Nicole (Natalie Canerday), Cleaman sired three sons, and his lack of concern for their future was reflected in the fact he barely ...

Spencer's Mountain (1963) Genre: Comedy Drama, Family Drama, Rural Drama, Family-Oriented Comedy, Americana. Director: Delmer Daves. Actors: Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, James MacArthur, Donald Crisp, Wally Cox, Mimsy Farmer, Virginia Gregg, Lillian Bronson, Whit Bissell, Dub Taylor, Ken Mayer, Veronica Cartwright, Bronwyn Fitzsimmons, Med Flory, Victor French, Michael Greene, Buzz Henry, Mike Henry, Kym Karath, Rory Mallinson, Larry D. Mann, Barbara McNair, Hayden Rorke, Hope Summers, Gary Young, Susan Young. Storyline: For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons, Spencer's Mountain sure has a lot in it about sex. Henry Fonda gives an interesting portrayal in one of his more unusual roles, as Clay Spencer, the hard-drinkin', hard-livin', hard lovin', hard-cussin' patriarch of a fiercely independent Wyoming family living in the Grand Tetons. ...

Suburbia (1983) Genre: Drama, Americana, Coming-of-Age. Director: Penelope Spheeris. Actors: Bill Coyne, Chris Pederson, Timothy Eric O'Brien, Jennifer Clay, Wade Walston, Grant Miner, Donald V. Allen, Christina Beck, Gil Christner, Maggie Ehrig, Flea, Robert E. Griffin, James Harrison, Ray Lawrence, John McCormack, J. Dinan Myrtetus, Andrew Pece, Robert Peyton, Jeff Prettyman, Anna Schoeller, Julie Winchester. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

The Astronaut Farmer (2006) Genre: Drama, Americana, Rural Drama. Director: Michael Polish. Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Max Thieriot, Jasper Polish, Logan Polish, Bruce Dern, Mark Polish, Jon Gries, Tim Blake Nelson, Sal Lopez, J.K. Simmons, Bruce Willis, Kiersten Warren, Rick Overton, Richard Barela, Richard Edson, Elise Eberle, Julie White, Graham Beckel, Marshall Bell, Kathleen Arc, Lois Geary, Dianne Anderson Mathis, William Lawrence Allen, Gregory Chase, Forrest Fyre, Janelle Sperow, Robert E. Fleischer, Kathy Lamkin, Charlie Brown, Gary Houston, Richard Holcomb, Adam Taylor, David House, John Lawrence Page, Mark Mathis, Matthew Kimbrough, Richard McClarkin, Brian McCallister, Jay Leno, Doris Hargrave, George McKelvey, Steve Cormier, Scarlett McAlister, Deborah Martinez, Benjamin Petry, Cheyenne Serano, Robyn Reede, Olive Gallagher, Kevin Wiggins, Joan Findley, Mary Sue Evans, Ida Darvish, Eugene Nomura, Vikrum Shah, Yvans Jourdain, Jennifer Chu, Dallas Raines, John Burke, Roy Costley, Esodie Geiger, JD Garfield, J. Michael "Yak" Oliva, Richard Gunn, Marc Miles, Jenny Gabrielle, Hannah Wiggins, David Marcilla, Joey Solis, Mark DeLisle, Robert Michael Lee, David Sullivan. Storyline: An aspiring astronaut who was forced to forsake his dream of exploring space in order to save the family farm begins building his own personal rocket as a means of reaching the stars in this quirky rural drama starring Billy Bob Thornton. There once was a time when Charlie Farmer (Thornton) seemed like a shoo-in for NASA's esteemed astronaut training program. An Air Force pilot who held a degree i ...

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Genre: Drama, Epic, Family Drama, Psychological Drama, Americana, Ensemble Film. Director: William Wyler. Actors: Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Virginia Mayo, Teresa Wright, Dorothy Adams, Don Beddoe, Walter S. Baldwin, Cathy O'Donnell, Roman Bohnen, Hoagy Carmichael, Howland Chamberlain, Steve Cochran, Ray Collins, Victor Cutler, Gladys George, Minna Gombell, Michael Hall, Charles Halton, Erskine Sanford, Bert Conway, Clancy Cooper, Blake Edwards, Pat Flaherty, Teddy Infur, Robert Karnes, Norman Phillips, Ralph Sanford, Ray Teal, Dean White. Storyline: The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult readjustments of returning World War II veterans, tells the intertwined homecoming stories of ex-sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March), former bomber pilot Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), and sailor Homer Parrish (Harold Russell). Having rubbed shoulders with blue-collar Joes for the firs ...

The Cider House Rules (1999) Genre: Drama, Coming-of-Age, Romantic Drama, Americana, Period Film. Director: Lasse Hallström. Actors: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Delroy Lindo, Paul Rudd, Michael Caine, Jane Alexander, Kathy Baker, Erykah Badu, Kieran Culkin, Kate Nelligan, Heavy D, K. Todd Freeman, Paz de la Huerta, Lonnie Farmer, Erik Per Sullivan. Storyline: John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an orphan who spent most of his childhood at the St. Cloud Orphanage in rural Maine, where he grew up under the strong but affectionate care of Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine). Larch has passed along his medical education to Homer, and the young man h ...

The Final Season (2007) Genre: Drama, Sports Drama, Rural Drama, Americana. Director: David Mickey Evans. Actors: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, James Gammon, Larry Miller, Marshall Bell, Tom Arnold, Michael Angarano, Lucinda Jenney, Angela Paton, Brett Claywell, Danielle Savre, Dayton Callie, Nick Livingston, Roscoe Myrick, MacKenzie Astin, Alexander Roos. Storyline: A place where baseball is more than just a game fights to hold on to the national pastime in this drama inspired by a true story. Norway, Iowa is a little town where folks take baseball seriously — so much so that even though Norway's high school boasts less than a hundred students, their baseball team has brought home the state championship nineteen times. Jim Van Scoyoc (Powers Boothe) ...

The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Genre: Drama, Rural Drama, Social Problem Film, Family Drama, Americana. Director: John Ford. Actors: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Grapewin, Doris Bowden, Russell Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury, Frank Sully, Frank Darien, Darryl Hickman, Shirley Mills, Roger Imhof, Grant Mitchell, Charles D. Brown, John Arledge, Wally Albright, Erville Alderson, Arthur Ayleswofth, Irving Bacon, Trevor Bardette, Ward Bond, George Breakston, Cliff Clark [Clarke], Shirley "Muggsy" Coates, Harry Cording, Ralph Dunn, Thornton Edwards, Frank Faylen, Pat Flaherty, James Flavin, Francis Ford, Paul Guilfoyle, William Haade, Ben Hall, Herbert Heywood, Robert E. Homans, David Hilary Hughes, Selmar Jackson, Hollis Jewell, Rex Lease, Mae Marsh, Louis Mason, Walter McGrail, Kitty McHugh, Charles B. Middleton, Walter Miller, Adrian Morris, Frank O'Connor, George O'Hara, Ted Oliver, Inez Palange, William Pawley, Gaylord "Steve" Pendleton, Jack Pennick, Dick Rich, Gloria Roy, Peggy Ryan, Joe Sawyer, Robert "Buddy" Shaw, Lee Shumway, Georgia Simmons, Harry Strang, Paul Sutton, Charles Tannen, Harry Tenbrook, Tom Tyler, Harry Tyler, Eddy Waller, Norman Willis. Storyline: The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director John Ford starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who opens the movie returning to his Oklahoma home after serving jail time for manslaughter. En route, Tom meets family friend Casey (John Carradine), a former preacher who warns Tom that dust storms, crop fai ...

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Period Film, Sports Drama, Americana. Director: Robert Redford. Actors: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch, Lane Smith, Harve Presnell, J. Michael Moncrief, Peter Gerety, Michael O'Neill, Thomas Jay Ryan, Jack Lemmon. Storyline: Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his confidence and sent him into a spiral of alcoholism. In 1931, Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron), a beautiful ...

The Majestic (2001) Genre: Drama, Americana, Period Film. Director: Frank Darabont. Actors: Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Martin Landau, Gerry Black, Brent Briscoe, Karl Bury, Jeffrey DeMunn, Catherine Dent, Amanda Detmer, Shawn Doyle, Allen Garfield, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Brian Howe, Ron Rifkin, Chelcie Ross, David Ogden Stiers, Daniel Von Bargen, James Whitmore, Matt G. Wiens, Bruce Campbell, Susan Willis, Cliff Curtis, Garry Marshall, Paul Mazursky, Sydney Pollack, Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner, Matt Damon, Earl Boen, Frank Collison, Larry Cox, Kevin DeMunn, Bill Gratton, Csilla Horvath, Scotty Leavenworth, Ken Magee, April Ortiz, Julie Richardson, Mario Roccuzzo, Michael Sloane, Grant Vaught, Bob Wells, Ginger Williams. Storyline: Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete's on top of the world with his first motion picture "Sand Pirates of the Sahara" just released to theaters and his romance with a beautiful starlet (Amanda Detmer) ...

The Natural (1984) Genre: Drama, Sports Drama, Americana, Period Film. Director: Barry Levinson. Actors: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky, Richard Farnsworth, Joe Don Baker, John Finnegan, Alan Fudge, Paul Sullivan, Rachel Hall, Robert III Rich, Michael Madsen, Danny Aiello, Joe Castellano, Eddie Cipot, Sam Green, Barry Kivel, Elizabeth Ann Klein, Darren McGavin, Bernie McInerney, Mike Starr, Joseph Strand, Ralph Tabakin, Gayle Vance, Jon Van Ness, Ed Walsh. Storyline: The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a farm boy with a hankering to be a great baseball player. With his faithful homemade bat "Wonderboy& ...

The Sandlot (1993) Genre: Children's/Family, Period Film, Coming-of-Age, Americana, Sports Comedy. Director: David Mickey Evans. Actors: Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Karen Allen, Marty York, Brandon Adams, James Earl Jones, Grant Gelt, Shane Obedzinski, Denis Leary, Art La Fleur, Bob Apisa, Keith Campbell, Victor di Mattia, Chuck Fick, Cleve Hall, Wil Horneff, Arliss Howard, Herb Muller, Garret Pearson, Shari Rhodes, Robbie T. Robinson, Marley Shelton, Dennis Williams, Maury Wills, Daniel Zacapa. Storyline: The Sandlot is sparsely narrated by the main character (now an adult) who occasionally drops in on the action to comment on events or help move the story along. Tom Guiry plays Scotty Smalls, the shy new kid on the block who wants to join the rowdy pickup baseball team that plays every day in the neighborhood sandlot. But he doesn't know how to catch a baseball, and his stepfather (Dennis Leary) ...

Used Cars (1980) Genre: Comedy, Satire, Americana. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Actors: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Frank McRae, Gerritt Graham, Deborah Harmon, Joe Flaherty, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Michael Talbott, Harry Northrup, Alfonso Arau, Al Lewis, Woodrow Parfrey, Andrew Duncan, Dub Taylor, Claude Earl Jones, Dan Barrows, Cheryl Rixon, John Abbott, Dave Adams, Gene Blakely, Mildred Brion, Russ Fega, Sandy Gibbons, Sam Ingraffia, Terence Knox, Marc McClure, Dick Miller, Wendie Jo Sperber, Rita Taggart, Betty Thomas, Tiny Wells, Allen Wood. Storyline: Used Cars is one of Robert Zemeckis' pre-Roger Rabbit and pre-Forrest Gump efforts starring Kurt Russell is a devious car salesman who goes to work for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Jack Warden. Warden's principal rival is his more prosperous twin brother, also played by Warden, who schemes to take over the "good" brother's lot. After a series of raunchy vignettes ...

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