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2 problems...otherwise a great movie!!!


1. I didn't catch anything that explained who Sissy Spacek's husband was. This wasn't that much of an issue...just would have made it a little better. If it was explained...that takes care of problem 1

2. It would have been a little more believable if the tractor was a little closer to the wheatfield when the druggies raced out of it and hit it...it was far enough to where they could have hit the breaks or swerved out of the way.

just my thoughts...you guys agree?

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i liked it, too. but here's one: if Billy had to stop at a filling station to check the brakes, why then, later, is he doing a tune-up on the car by his lonesome?

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cant you just be cool about it and agree to everyones B-S??
jp.

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Bored me to tears, but I am going to re-watch from the AA meeting on...

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2. yeah I agree... but it was "close enough"... maybe if they had swerved and hit something else...or swerved enough to hit it on the side...but then maybe both of them wouldn't have been killed...

my little problem was why didn't the son hit the guy with the bat a few more times...or take the gun from him... duh...

of course..that set up the classic...gun shot..who got shot scene... used so so many times...

you see a guy pointing the gun..then a gun shot..and the bad guy falls to reveal the "lamb" who kills the bad guy... it's a classic scene...used well here.

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When Clayton helped Maggie charge the tractor's battery, he asked her why Billy didn't look like her. Maggie told him Billy looked like his dad and went on to say Billy, his dad, and grandfather all shared the same first name. When Clayton wanted to know where they were, she told him both were dead.

Umm, that was a corn field, not a wheat field. Before the drug dealers arrived, Maggie and Clayton had been charging the tractor's battery. Her vehicle was pulled close to the tractor as a precaution. The ground close to the corn field was probably softer than the ground close to the big shed. Maggie wouldn't risk getting her vehicle stuck out there.

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1. Sissy Spacek's husband had nothing to do with the movie. She said that he left and that was a good enough explanation for me. To go into it in more detail wouldn't have served the story.

2. The tractor wasn't that far from the end of the corn field. The driver could have been looking toward Sissy Spacek since he was trying to run her down, which is the logical explanation for driving a measley 20 to 30 feet after exiting the cornfield at a good clip and not seeing the tractor until it was too late.


I gave the film credit for not adding screeching of car tires when breaking or turning on dirt/grass, which is heard in most movies.




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Thank you for being so observant; all the information is in fact in the movie if you watch carefully.

And thanks for giving us credit for not adding screeching of tires or breaking or turning on dirt/grass. So much credit goes to our excellent sound design team, our editors Jeff Wolf and Colleen Sharp (Sharpie!) and to our amazing DP Bob Ganz. All under the supervision of the excellent producer Mike Ryan.

Although we only had 19 days to shoot the movie and a mere $1 million budget (peanuts compared to the movies most critics compared this movie to), we were blessed with a devoted and brilliant crew that stretched every penny so that the experience was all on screen.

Thanks again for your appreciation!
Perry Moore
co-director and co-writer, LAKE CITY (which we called "Lake Sissy" with Rebecca while making it)
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I just got through watching this for the first time and loved it. I almost changed stations till I saw how Billy got away. Very clever. Then I had to find out what was going on. I thought it was a well written movie with an excellent cast. And I'm glad I didn't change channels.

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