Accents are horrible - and horribly inconsistent.

Hollywood's portrayal of the South has never been sympathetic nor accurate...they seem to regard it as a foreign land.

But that doesn't excuse the actors' woeful attempts at regional accents or those cast members who simply can't be fussed. Commerce (Tradd's father) and The Bear in particular are stuck squarely in Yankeeland despite both characters being born and bred in the Lowcountry. Others sound as if they are doing cheap imitations of Gone With The Wind characters but most drift randomly in and out of already-shaky accents (eg Michael Biehn, Judge Reinhold).

David Keith, bless him, is a legitimate son of the South but his Appalachian/Tennessean is still miles away from a Charleston accent.

To be fair, the film was made mostly in the UK by a British director but an on-set dialect coach wouldn't have gone amiss given the importance of the regional setting.