Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 05/11/2001(USA
Release Date: 03/18/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 111 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Writer-director
Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (
Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (
Ann Walker), and Sissy (
Beth Grant) plan her funeral -- an unenviable task, considering that they must carefully hide the deceased's affair with amputee G.W. (
Beau Bridges) from his wife, the vindictive Noleta (
Delta Burke). Meanwhile, the trio has to come to terms with two cases of sexual orientation: Latrelle's openly gay soap-opera star son Ty (
Kirk Geiger), whose sexuality she continues to deny; and their only brother, Boy (
Leslie Jordan), who's serving a sentence in a mental ward for his adamant belief that he is actually country & western legend
Tammy Wynette. Playing an aspiring singer-songwriter,
Olivia Newton-John turns up to provide the film with the occasional musical interlude.
~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
