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Junebug

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Awards

Academy Awards 2006 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actress in Supporting Role

BFCA 2006 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

Casting Society of America 2006 - Won - Best Independent Feature Film Casting

COFCA 2006 - Won - Breakthrough Film Artist

Academy Awards 2006 - Nominated - Best Performance by an Actress in Supporting Role

BFCA 2006 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

Casting Society of America 2006 - Won - Best Independent Feature Film Casting

COFCA 2006 - Won - Breakthrough Film Artist

FFCC 2005 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

Gotham Awards 2005 - Nominated - Breakthrough Director

Gotham Awards 2005 - Won - Breakthrough Award

Independent Spirit Awards 2006 - Nominated - Best First Screenplay

Independent Spirit Awards 2006 - Nominated - Producers Award

Independent Spirit Awards 2006 - Won - Best Supporting Female

Las Palmas Film Festival 2006 - Won Silver Lady Harimaguada

NSFC 2006 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

OFCS 2006 - Nominated - Best Supporting Actress

Satellite Awards 2005 - Nominated - Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2006 - Nominated - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Support

SEFCA Award 2005 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

SEFCA Award 2005 - Won - Wyatt Award

SFFCC 2005 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

Sundance Film Festival 2005 - Nominated - Grand Jury Prize

Sundance Film Festival 2005 - Won - Special Jury Prize

VFCC 2006 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

WAFCA 2005 - Nominated - Best Breakthrough Performance

WAFCA 2005 - Nominated - Best Screenplay

WAFCA 2005 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

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Junebug

Director:
Phil Morrison
R, 106 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a sophisticated Chicagoan who owns a gallery devoted to "outsider art," goes south in an effort to woo an eccentric painter (Frank Hoyt Taylor) to her gallery. She brings along her husband, George (Alessandro Nivola), a native of the area, and the couple stays with his family. Peg (Celia Weston), George's mother, gives Madeleine a rather chilly greeting, and seems to think she's a poor match for her eldest son, while his father, Eugene (Scott Wilson), is a bit more welcoming, in his quiet way. George's younger brother, Johnny (Ben McKenzie), is still living at home with his very pregnant wife, Ashley (Amy Adams), and seems to feel nothing but resentment for George. For her part, Ashley is a gregarious young woman, and she's immediately smitten with her "new sister."

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"No matter how far we go, it seems we never leave home. This adorable and character-rich film follows a Chicago art dealer and her younger newly-wed to North Carolina where each are confronted with the complexity and beauty of family relations, the struggle for identity, and what truly matters most."

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MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content and language.

Runtime:
106 min.

Genres:
Comedy
Drama

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Certification:
R

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NOTES: 

Phil Morrison, who collaborated with screenwriter Angus MacLachlan for his acclaimed 1990 short, Tater Tomater, joins forces with MacLachlan again for his feature-film debut, Junebug. Junebug was selected by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center for inclusion in the 2005 edition of New Directors/New Films.

 

 

Memorable Quotes

Ashley: God loves you just the way you are. But He loves you too much to let you stay that way. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Madeleine: I was born in Japan.

Ashley: You were not!
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Madeleine: I even bite my toenails.

Ashley: You do not!
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Peg: I don't want your water breaking. We just had the upholstery cleaned.
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Eugene: I have done some screwing in here I guess.
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Madeleine: Did they sign a contract?

Bernadette: It wasn't clear; all I know is they were obviously influenced by someone's, you know, high-falutin' talkin'.
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Ashley: I can't sit down! I'm too excited!
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Ashley: I wonder what she looks like. I bet she's skinny. She probably is. She's skinnier'n me and prettier too. Now I'll hate her. Oh, I can't wait!
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Ashley: I hate hospitals, but it wasn't really all that scary. All the needles and stuff. It wasn't that bad. I'll tell you what the scariest thing is to me - the scariest thing to me is Johnny. It is. He didn't say nothin'. Not one word. At least I don't know what it is, and I think he really did want it, too. Just a boy - you know how I know? I heard him tell your pa to paint the cradle brown. You just wouldn't put a baby girl in a brown cradle. You just wouldn't. [starts to cry] I don't know what he's thinkin'. It's not my fault! And all that time and all that stuff I got and all those months, it was just all for nothin'! And those fucking doctors, they think they know everything but they don't know anything! They don't know anything! Oh, I don't understand! I don't understand. Why would God let this happen? Why would he? I just wanted something good to come out of all this. I mean it... I really mean it.
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Ashley: All I really want is for Johnny to love me like he did in high school.
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Peg: [to Madeleine] You came all the way from Chicago to find a good artist?
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Eugene: Where would I be if I was a screwdriver?
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Peg: [after they realize Ashley was ready to give birth] Where are you going?

Eugene: Bring the car upfront.

Peg: Don't just stand there go get the car!

 

 

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