This movie was soooo bad! I had to force myself to keep watching it, hoping that the end would be better. But as it turned out, it would have been a smarter move to turn it off after the first 5 minutes!
These actors really but the t, in terrible acting. Are these guys for real? What a joke! On a 10/1 scale, i'd have to give this movie a 1!
Believe me, pour white TRASH really is TRASH!
But it was filmed in southern Illinois!!
shareExactly!! I'm from Illinois and believe me...we do have some southern trash! I thought the movie was funny. That's just me.
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Hey now, Southern Illinois isn’t all that bad. I enjoyed it for a few laughs, but I grew up where it was filmed. The bowling alley scenes were shot in my hometown.
The courthouse scenes were shot in Benton, IL where John Malkovich spent his youth.
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Im from Illinois too, and I did not know it was filmed here. Is it suppose to take place in Illinois? I didn't think so but I might be wrong.
Hey you know whats funny. I always thought that dogs..um..laid eggs. And I learned something today.
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I loved this movie! Don't get me wrong, it's probably one of the worst films I've ever seen, but I go to SIU-C and study psychology just as the boy wanted to in the film. I can't place the location of the boy (I didn't hear mention of an actual city) but it's the southwest, near Saint Louis, where I grew up due to the way they refer to Carbondale with such high regard to a "big city" and being two hours away, I doubt they live on the southern tip of Illinois, because Paducah is much larger than Carbondale and would by no means comparable.
I watched this with a group of friends in the psych department at SIU-C and we laughed ourselves silly, from the self-help psychological insight the boy was blabbering to the tearful burning of the Saluki pennant and the "moral turpitude" of shoplifting that kept him out of college here. Yeah, right. I think the best part was the alternate plan to attend the University of Chicago, which is a very tough school to gain admittance to. That and the cost of the Chicago-area schools are some of the reasons why our stastical majority is Chicago natives (barring the obviously high concentration of people living in Chicago and the Chi-metro).
Just the same, if anyone that reads this ever gets to experience a film that hits close to home such as this did for me (barring the accents, trailers and the white-trash paradigm), embrace it. It's highly cathartic! Hopefully your film will be equally as trashy.
no the courthouse scene was shot in murphysboro get it right :)
shareOk, I was wrong about the court house, it clearly says Jackson County, my mistake. Just assumed it was Benton, because a large portion of the movie was shot in Franklin County. The greasy spoon is in Christopher, the bowling alley is the Ten Pin Alley in DuQuoin, and the Dam he is riding the bike across is Rend Lake.
shareActually, the courthouse scene was a multilocational shoot. The exterior was shot at Jackson Co Courthouse, but the interior (at least in the stair well) was shot at Franklin Co Courthouse on the square in Benton, Illinois. The square was semi-blocked off for 2 weeks during the shooting.
shareif your talking about the shot where they are riding their bikes in the beginning its not at rend lake its at murphysboro lake just near the dam there.
shareThe interior courthouse was shot in Benton. I was an extra in the courthouse scenes and they were shot at the Franklin Co Courthouse.
shareCan somebody back me up, but wasn't the "waffle barn" scene shot in Marion? Of course, I'm from Marion, so I'm a bit biased.
sharePretty sure the Waffle Barn was shot in Christopher, but I may be wrong. Only thing I know is the interior courthouse was shot in Benton cause I was an extra in those scenes.
share"Southern" and "trash" are not synonymous. Trash is trash.
shareI really liked this movie. I like William Devane and Jamie Pressly. It was interesting and simple at the same time. I'm glad Comedy Central shows it once in a while.
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i really liked it
but im from southern indiana and kentucky and i know white trash people like that lmao
but its werid i just moved to p.a. and it seems like some people make fun of the south by writing git and *beep* cause thats really how i talk... lol
whatever this is one of my favorite movies
It wasn't very funny, but it wasn't a bad movie for straight to video.
Because sponges never have bad days.
I live in Benton.
"Well there's that. I guess I have that."
-Andrew Largeman-Garden State
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Benton isn't like that at all. If you want all of the white trash pieces of *beep* you have to go to Hamilton County!
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"Well there's that. I guess I have that."
-Andrew Largeman-Garden State
This movie was obviously re-packaged after Jamie Pressly gained acclaim. She is front and center on the cover but in the background as far as much relevance to the movie.
Sean Young can't do a southern accent and shouldn't have been cast for the role. Apart from this casting faux paux the characterizations are well concieved but poorly delivered.
The movie has a certain gritty reality to it (translate - low production value) but fails to deliver on laughs and you can't even forgive how the main characters make one stupid decision after another.
Skip it!
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Hey my former girlfriend was from Southern ILLINOIS and I went to some trailer park to meet her uncle and her dad. She was right, it seems that her dad was also her uncle, go figure !
shareMovies like this do not make theaters for a reason. Low budget shyt with a cast of no talent.
shareHaha, I thought it was funny as hell.
shareEverybody i've shown it to has laughed their heads off. It's one of those movies where people online hate it but actual real life conversations usually have people saying they enjoyed laughing at these simple hicks...
"What? do you wanna just sit around and be wrong?" - Liz Lemon