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This slow-burning, acutely observed comedy of manners concerns a dealer in outsider art who threatens the equilibrium of her middle-class in-laws in North Carolina. Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz, Schindler s List) is a go-getting art gallery owner from Chicago, recently married to George (Alessandro Nivola, Goal!), a near-perfect Southern beau. When Madeleine needs to close a deal with a reclusive North Carolina artist, George introduces her to his family: prickly mother Peg (Celia Weston, The Village), taciturn father Eugene (Scott Wilson, The Last Samurai), cranky brother Johnny (Ben McKenzie, The O.C.), and Johnny s pregnant, childlike wife Ashley (Amy Adams, The Fighter, Enchanted), who is awestruck by her glamorous sister-in-law. Madeleine's presence exposes the fragile family dynamics as hidden resentments and anxieties surface. As well as the Oscar® nomination, Amy Adams won Best Supporting Actress awards from the Sundance Film Festival and Screen Actors Guild (amongst many others). Junebug also won the MoMA New Directors Award and the Cannes Film Festival Critics Award. Critically observed as being a small quiet miracle (The Telegraph) and of having breathtaking visual textures (Time Out), Junebug is presented here, anamorphically in its original aspect ratio to replicate the theatrical experience as closely as possible.
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'Phil Morrison’s American indie got a single Oscar nomination…but deserved about 12’ -- Tom Robey, Daily Telegraph, 15 April, 2006
‘On another level from just about everything around it...The world needs more movies like Junebug’ -- Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 14 April, 2006
‘On another level from just about everything around it...The world needs more movies like Junebug’ -- Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 14 April, 2006
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25 of 32 people found the following review helpful
By P. Bennett
Format:DVD
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!
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I love the movie and have it on DVD, but I am now deaf and the Blu-ray like the DVD had no English Subtitles, So I returned it for a refund, unless it could be replaced with a version that had English Subtitles.
15 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By Jules
Format:DVD
A beautiful, emotionally intense film about the intricate workings of a family in America's southern religious belt.
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.
Highly recommended.
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.
Highly recommended.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
She should have run a mile...
The crux of this film comes when George, Madeleine's husband, is invited to stand up and sing at a church-organised meal. Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2010 by Abaco Books
1.0 out of 5 stars
It Must Have Been A Bad Year For Film
When I came across Junebug for sale in a poundshop of all places, I was intrigued for several reasons. Read more
Published on 9 Dec 2009 by Andrew Kerr
3.0 out of 5 stars
still better than a big budget movie any day
Ok, so in some ways Junebug was perhaps just a little too subtle and too slow for my uneducated tastes - BUT it is superbly acted. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2009 by Jeannie
4.0 out of 5 stars
So Real, So Effective.....,
Everyone's been invited to a weekend at a friends house or spent a couple day's outside their own "world" I would think. Read more
Published on 4 July 2007 by Jenny J.J.I.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointed But Not Devastated..
Every so often a film is released that slips under your radar ('how did I miss that?' you ask yourself). Read more
Published on 27 April 2007 by William J. Walker
3.0 out of 5 stars
Mixed Feelings
It's difficult to truly describe Junebug! On the one hand, it has some interesting moments comparing very different lifestyles and not judging either one. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2007 by Spiralgoddess
1.0 out of 5 stars
Pretentious Dull Dull Dull film
Please please don't rent this film.... we did, and now we're sorry... If you don't end up wanting to kill all of the characters (excluding the nice chatty pregnant lady) when the... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2007 by GRS
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent
brilliant, clever, first class acting, not your typical american cinema unfortunately. watch it.
Published on 2 Nov 2006 by T. Rowell
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wierd, unsettling, ultimately confusing, strangely worthwhile
This film takes you to a strange place. It conjures that silent feeling you get when you step back into your childhood home and you feel as though you've been re-inserted into a... Read more
Published on 11 July 2006 by J. Porter
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Where would I be if I was a screwdriver?"
The story opens in Chicago, where ultra-chic gallery owner Madeline (Embeth Davidtz) has just discovered a primitive painter she wants to represent. Read more
Published on 22 April 2006 by Kona
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