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Summary: Rated as a 5 for it's educational value
Review: Actually, the movie is terrible, even with the great acting and interesting interaction and plot. It's educational value, and the reason it stinks, is that it graphically depicts what the Hollywood (and Beltway) elite must think the rest of the country is actually like. Very rarely do you find such an explicit collection of racial/cultural stereotypes and regional slurs in one neat package. If the director of this had instead been depicting Afro-Americans, he would have been boycotted and brought up on charges. But because the story is about a small town in the South, it passes the PC-test and becomes a great movie. Because of this, the movie is a gem - but not in the way it was intended.
Rating:
Summary: Rated as a 5 for it's educational value
Review: Actually, the movie is terrible, even with the great acting and interesting interaction and plot. It's educational value, and the reason it stinks, is that it graphically depicts what the Hollywood (and Beltway) elite must think the rest of the country is actually like. Very rarely do you find such an explicit collection of racial/cultural stereotypes and regional slurs in one neat package. If the director of this had instead been depicting Afro-Americans, he would have been boycotted and brought up on charges. But because the story is about a small town in the South, it passes the PC-test and becomes a great movie. Because of this, the movie is a gem - but not in the way it was intended.
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Summary: Sucks! Recorded on a Back-lot Studio in California
Review: After watching this movie for about 30 minutes, I knew something was wrong. There were no hills or bunches of trees. It looks like the movie was made in huge somewhat empty parking lot.
Too bad, cause Rory Cochrane is my home.(Know what I am sayin'?) Don't even waste your time. Try and check out "Southlander" instead.
Peace
Rating: 
Summary: Don't Waste Your Time
Review: Another reviewer stated this is "a midwesterner's view of the midwest...". That's crap.... As someone from Missouri and who's been to Cuba this movie is about as real (and insulting) if they had done Boyz in the Hood with middle aged white guys in blackface. I don't know if this is "Hollywood's View of the midwest," or if the director and writer just happen to have head injuries.
Rating:
Summary: Don't Waste Your Time
Review: Another reviewer stated this is "a midwesterner's view of the midwest...". That's crap.... As someone from Missouri and who's been to Cuba this movie is about as real (and insulting) if they had done Boyz in the Hood with middle aged white guys in blackface. I don't know if this is "Hollywood's View of the midwest," or if the director and writer just happen to have head injuries.
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Summary: a actor, some hillbillies, roadkill and you got Dogtown
Review: Dogtown is about a former resident turned movie star, Trevor St. John (Payback '99 and Tv's One Life To Live), who returns to his home town inw hich he sees how it hasn't changed one bit. His former school mates havent changed and his family hasnt changed also. His mother is played by Karen Black (House Of 1000 Corpses, Airport 1975) and his sister is played by Natasha Gregson Wagner (Urban Legend, Stranger Than Fiction)...his sister is autistic. The bullies of his past, Rory Cochrane (Tv's CSI:Miami, Empire Records) and Jon Favreau (Swingers, The Big Empty), though you cant understand half of what they say threw out. Favreau and Cochrane skrap up dead animals off the side of the road..hmm. The quiet studdly actor also remembers he had a crush on the once beauty queen, Mary Stuart Masterson, now turned hairstylist who still lives with her abusive drunken dad and his sister. Trevor St. John gives a silent effective performance but the movie drones on with it's sillyness and Favreau chews up everyscene he is in with his racist slurs and his southern tobacco spitting cocky attitude and you just want someone to kill the guy. Also starring Maureen McCormick (TV's Becker).
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Summary: INSULTED
Review: For starters, the movie was shot in Torrence California which looks nothing like Cuba Misourri or any other town in the Ozarks. I guess any flat area would do-- and what's the difference? Right? Oh well. We were also supposed to ignore the palm trees that made their way into at least two scenes. Added on to that, was the obscene depiction of rural people. The director and writer really made no bones about their view of those of us who come from the South and Midwest;according to them, we are all a bunch of racists and hillbilly waste products(the characters played by John Favreau and Rory Cochran were straight out of the TOXIC AVENGER) I am guessing that not a whole lot of research went into the making of this opus. And as a result, we got a B movie disguised as an edgy, indie, arthouse flick, made by a cast and crew, who think they are just so hip and so enlightened. The truth is,all they really are is intellectually lazy, and socially unaware.
Rating:
Summary: INSULTED
Review: For starters, the movie was shot in Torrence California which looks nothing like Cuba Misourri or any other town in the Ozarks. I guess any flat area would do-- and what's the difference? Right? Oh well. We were also supposed to ignore the palm trees that made their way into at least two scenes. Added on to that, was the obscene depiction of rural people. The director and writer really made no bones about their view of those of us who come from the South and Midwest;according to them, we are all a bunch of racists and hillbilly waste products(the characters played by John Favreau and Rory Cochran were straight out of the TOXIC AVENGER) I am guessing that not a whole lot of research went into the making of this opus. And as a result, we got a B movie disguised as an edgy, indie, arthouse flick, made by a cast and crew, who think they are just so hip and so enlightened. The truth is,all they really are is intellectually lazy, and socially unaware.
Rating:
Summary: Whats below 1 star?
Review: I can't conceive of a movie worse than this, unless it didn't have Marcia Brady in it. She was hot. It was supposed to take place in Missouri but was obviously shot in a socal backlot. Why would someone think people would not recognize that? They should have a prompt that says "this movies takes place in Missouri, or Iowa, or London, or New York. Any similarities to southern Califonia should be ignored." The characters were just plain stupid. You can find those kind of fetal-alcohol adults anywhere. Pure drivel. MST3K material.
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Summary: Whats below 1 star?
Review: I can't conceive of a worse movie than this, and I truly have low expectations. I only watched it because Marcia Brady was in in and was she hot. That is the highlight. There is no town in Missouri that even comes close to the one depicted in this movie. This is MST3K material.
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