 | The Great Santini
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $1.30 Sleeper movie based on novel by Pat Conroy. It is largly autobiogrphical and deals with a son's relationship to his demanding, emotionally distant Marine colonel father, Bull Meacham aka "The Great Santini" (played by Robert Duvall.) Sub-plot involves race relations in the early 1960's South.
Very good movie.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $9.89 A classic. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck)is one of the great Southern characters.
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 | Sling Blade - Director's Cut (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.98 A modern classic, Faulknerian in scope. Billy Bob Thorton knows the South and captures the feeling of rural Arkansas wonderfully.
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 | The Apostle - Collector's Edition
Buy used from: $7.49 Robert Duvall's film about a lay preacher, set in Texas and Louisiana. A tour-de-force.
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 | O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $2.48 The Coen Brothers comic musical version of Homer's Odyssey set in Depression era Mississippi. Brilliant!
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 | Big Fish
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.51 Wonderful story set in Alabama. Draws on the idea of the South and mythology. Albert Finney is great as an Alabamian.
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 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $1.99 Murder mystery set in Savannah based on a true story. Directed by Clint Eastwood, starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey.
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 | Matewan
Buy used from: $26.99 Great film about the Matewan coal mining union riots before World war II.
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 | The Water Is Wide - Hallmark Hall of Fame
Buy used from: $29.98 Memoir of Pat Conroy and his days as a teacher in the Sea Islands of SC in the late 1960's. The version with Jon Voight is much better if you can find it.
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 | Dead Man Walking
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.00 |
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