R Rated pre Civil Rights South

[Stephen Fox]

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/mo ... =dayp&_r=0

This movie captures a tone many of us could breathe when we stepped outside the Doors of the Revival meetings about 62 and a decade earlier. Pete Dexter from whose novel it is adapted also did Paris Trout, one of my favorite movies, a darker version in a sense of Too Kill a Mockingbird. Time Mag said it was one of the best movies of the 80's. I agree. Had an all time moving line as Paris--Dennis Hopper--has just just shot up colored town in South Georgia circa 49. Mother falls through the back screen door toward the light of the small back porch with her dying daughter.

And the Little Girls says: Momma, I'm cold.

And the Mother says: Don't worry chile, Jesus'll be here soon and cover us both with a blanket.