Wrong Accents!

I think I'll order this film. I might struggle to find it on Dvd Region 2 as I live in Ireland but I'd like to have a look at it. I like these offbeat films.

There are almost as many dialects in Texas as there are Texans. A hill country dialect is not a plains dialect is not a coastal dialect, etc. Horton Foote was writing about his own family, and they lived in Wharton, southwest of Houston, not too far from the coast. Since Foote wrote his own screenplay and his wife Lillian was one of the producers (meaning he would have unfettered access to the set), you can be pretty sure he would have caught any inaccuracies. Then there's the fact that Hallie Foote is basically playing her own grandmother, who died in 1974 when Hallie was 24, so she certainly would have known what her own grandmother sounded like.

You want to hear what Horton Foote himself sounded like, watch Ken Burns' THE CIVIL WAR. Foote was the voice of Jefferson Davis.

I don't know if they were accurate but I liked the accents. Does sound like Alabama though