Vernon, Florida
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Time Out says
Anyone who saw Gates of Heaven will need no inducement to try Errol Morris' second idiosyncratic foray into documentary. While less sharply focused than the pet cemetery film, this is equally delightful in its loving - but detached - portrait of the more eccentric inhabitants of small-town America, in this case the backwater community of the title. The subjects discussed include turkey hunting, sand-growth (a couple have a jarful from Los Alamos, New Mexico, which they insist is growing apace), and people with multiple brains. Morris, thankfully, never patronises his subjects' loony views. Touching and funny, the film is a real-life predecessor to David Byrne's fictional True Stories.Author: GA
Release details
UK release:
1980
Duration:
60 mins
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Cast:
Claude Register, Albert Bitterling, Henry Shipes, Snake Reynolds, Roscoe Collins
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