Films set (or mostly set) in Alabama

obviously i'm voting for my cousin vinny

Damn, Space Camp.

Nobody in their right mind would actually vote for Space Camp the movie, but its namesake is the pride of my hometown.

Anyone seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN1piXH2aio

Haha, I was also going to mention Space Camp

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I thought of voting for The Grass Harp, filmed in and near my home town, and incl. Sissy Spacek, but don't remember it that well, except wasn't that impressed Also considered Payday as your write-in option: Rip Torn, as asshole country singer, downwardly mobile or never-was, pretty proud of himself either way, riding around the barrens of Perry County in the backseat of a crap car w groupies---good, but went for The Long Walk Home, screwed-with several times in re-edits, I hear, but the early version I saw, in a Montgomery theater and incl. local actors I knew as local big shots I knew of, incl. some still with us then, also incl. Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg, in good employer/housekeeper situation-within-the-situation.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Soultaker or Future Force.

Oops, I meant,of course, the sequel to Future Force, *Future Zone*. I got my movies where David Carradine wears a mesh shirt mixed up.

TKAM director Robert Mulligan had a rare gift for working with children--think he always chose non-professionals, as in The Other, which may have helped---also Robert Duvall and I guess Gregory Peck were well cast (Peck was stiff, but so was his character, under the small town lens more than ever). But overall I don't remember it as well as the ones I first mentioned, or some others on the list (haven't seen it in a lawwnnnggg tahhhhhhme).

obviously i'm voting for my cousin vinny

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The Little Foxes for Teresa Wright

I went for To Kill A Mockiingbird. I didn't get round to The Honeymoon Killers in time.

I don't really love any of these (of the ones I've seen), voted for Selma because I thought it hit its marks well. Talladega Nights as a runner-up.

Mockingbird is a powerfully sentimental melodrama whose depictions of southern blacks and Jim Crow racism are incredibly warped and have aged horribly. I used to think it was grebt, but that was a very long time ago. Now I just think it was well-intentioned and its faults are mostly pardonable, considering its time and who its audience were. But these days it's only suitable as an object for corrective criticism by the people it caricatured.

Not a popular film, but one of the best docs I've seen in recent memory: 'Hale County This Morning This Evening' is a real triumph, IMHO. From 2018

Ah, should have included that. Looks fascinating.

I thought that was a great film, would have voted for that

I had decided not to include docs but from what I can tell this is more like an artwork than a doc, per se?

(that was a silly thing to say)

fwiw, the trailer gives the impression that it's a series of beautiful abstract frames which is not really what it is or all it is, at least.

it was very layered and oblique and didn't really feel much like other documentaries I've seen

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I wasn't sure what I thought of it after I watched it but I've recently concluded that it's one of the better films of the past few years, if only because I think about it all the time.

I didn't actually do this because Alabama is alphabetically the first state but the next one alphabetically is Alaska. Should I do films set in Alaska?

Not doing all of them though.

Films set in Alaska is a reasonably interesting list.