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Director:
Terence Davies
Writers:
Terence Davies John Kennedy Toole (novel)
Release Date:
1 March 1996 (USA)
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Genre:
Drama more
Plot Summary:
While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family...
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Plot Keywords:
Based On Novel
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Independent Film
Awards:
2 nominations
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User Comments:
He Should Stick to What He Knows...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)Jacob Tierney ... David, aged 15Drake Bell ... David, aged 10Gena Rowlands ... Mae MorganDiana Scarwid ... SarahDenis Leary ... FrankBob Hannah ... GeorgeAaron Frisch ... BruceCharles Franzen ... Tannoy VoiceLeo Burmester ... Bobbie Lee TaylorSherry Velvet ... First TestifierStephanie Astalos-Jones ... Second TestifierIan Shearer ... Billy Sunday ThompsonJoan Glover ... FloraJill Jane Clements ... WomanTom Turbiville ... Clydemore
Runtime:
91 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Iceland:L/ Portugal:M/12/ Spain:13/ Sweden:15/ UK:15/ Australia:M
Filming Locations:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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MOVIEmeter:
6% since last week
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Company:
Academy
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Quotes:
David:
If you were different from anybody else in town, you had to get out. They used to say in school, "you have to think for yourself," but you couldn't do that in town. You have to think what your father thought and that was what everybody thought.
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Movie Connections:
References Mildred Pierce (1945)
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He Should Stick to What He Knows..., 9 October 2006
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moondog-8 from An American in China
I really admire the films that Terrence Davies made about growing up in
British working class environment after World War II. They're brilliant
works.But this is horrifically off the mark.The review of Davies' version of Edith Wharton's *House of Mirth* in
the NY Times said that the movie was more like Charles Dickens than
Edith Wharton. Which is exactly the criticism I had of this movie.
These folks are not embodying American Southern farmers, they're acting
like industrial working class people. I can understand and be
sympathetic to the original story: my people, coming from South
Carolina & Georgia, had lives very similar to the plot of this movie.
Therefore, I could see where this could potentially be a very good
film.But nothing gets under my skin like an inability to see beyond one's
own cultural bias...which is the major mistake of the director of this
production. If you take the emotions, the gestures, the imagery of this
film and put them in an industrial landscape, it would be an OK movie.
But having people interact and react this way and have them being
farmers in the Deep South is bogus, phony and w-a-y off the mark. If
you want to see true southern Americana, skip this movie and see Elia
Kazan's *Wild River* instead...
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