- Release Date: 2005
- Runtime: 100 min
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Johnny Knoxville, Beth Grant, Laura Cayouette ... see all
- Director: Katrina Holden Bronson
- Plot: The Knoxville, Tennessee-set film, written by Bronson, is a dark comedy about a father (Knoxville) struggling to keep his once lucrative Tennessee golfing empire intact when his estranged 14-year-old daughter... Read more
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Critics Reviews
| Apr 10, 2006PopMatters
What a pity she didn't spend as much time perfecting her script as she did her soundtrack..... ... Full Review
| Feb 07, 2006PopMatters
Katrina Holden Bronson has a reason to proud.
If the character development is laughable, the continuity errors will make you want to scream at executive producer (and Oscar-winning screenwriter) Tarantino for ever letting this script pass without major alterations.
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| Feb 05, 2006DVD Town
I inferred from the movie's keep case (which in addition to "heartwarming" calls the story "quirky" and its cast "hilarious") that the film was supposed to be humorous, but there is little evidence of such, and events soon turn the film into a soap opera. ... Full Review
| Feb 05, 2006DVD Town
He, like the movie, is simply bland..... ... Full Review
| Oct 25, 2005Village Voice
The multiplex hardly needs another "quirky," "indie" comedy.....But whatever refreshingly bland appeal the decent, ordinary folks of Ducktown , Tennessee , possess isn't worth the film's convenient whitewash of their Dixie locale..... ... Full Review
News
LOS ANGELES -- Johnny Knoxville jokes that he was worried airport security brought out a bomb-sniffing dog because he was carrying one of his movies. ... Full Article
A Deadbeat's Dilemma in a Wacky Southern Town
nytimes.com –
2005-11-04
Gal Morel's "Three Dancing Slaves," originally titled more appropriately "Le Clan," focuses on three brothers living in a beautiful but boring countryside community outside Annecy, France, coping with the loss of their mother. ... Full Article
Daltry Calhoun
boxofficeprophets.com –
2005-09-23
Daltry Calhoun
slantmagazine.com –
2005-09-01
altry Calhoun is so lopsidedly plot-holed, so inconsistent in tone and rhythm, and so aimless and disjointed that it appears to have been constructed by a frazzled editor who, faced with an impossible deadline to snip a rough cut into... ... Full Article
Knoxville Meets Daltry Calhoun
filmstew.com –
2004-09-20




