Jayne Mansfield's Car Page #8

Synopsis: A young man in the 1940s raises a family in Alabama after his wife leaves him for an Englishman and moves to England. When the wife dies, she leaves a request to be brought back to Alabama to be buried, and at that point the man hasn't seen her in nearly 30 years. The two families - her original family she abandoned and her English family - meet and make an attempt to adjust to each other, with uneven results.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Billy Bob Thornton
Production: Anchor Bay Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
34%
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Year:
2012
122 min
£14,276
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he's fixing to die too...

and I just thought, "Well..."

"...that poor devil."

it was like

I wasn't mad no more.

What is that?

Ice tea, hon.

I made some for your grandpa.

He and Sir Kingsley

are going hunting.

Made some hot tea

for Sir Kingsley.

Want a sip of tea? Eh?

Not yet. Not yet.

I'm thirsty.

There was a Civil War battle

fought not far from here,

called the Battle of Ten Mile

Creek.

- Really?

- Yeah.

See, the Yankees

come swooping down

off the high ground,

killed just about all our boys.

You haven't brought

your dogs with you.

No. We don't need any dogs.

- Daddy.

- What, Mickey?

I'm trying to meditate.

That was Alan. He's been

tripping since last night

and this morning put some

in Grandpa's ice tea.

Why would he do that?

'Cause I told him.

I said it'd be a good idea.

F***ing dude.

Actually I've got a very funny

hunting story

about Phillip

when he was a small...

Hold on, hold on.

Hold on.

- Sorry? Beg your pardon?

- Hold on. What's...?

What's happening?

What's happening?

KINGSLEY:

How do you mean?

Yeah.

Everything feels funny.

A little wiggly.

Do you feel a little wiggly?

Jim, are you all right?

Everything's changing...

the ground,

the trees, the sky.

The leaves

like a wave.

And...

I don't have any balance.

I don't have any balance.

Please tell me

that you see

that parade of trees,

the one with waving leaves

up yonder, see?

'Cause I don't know what...

I don't know what's going on

or where I'm at.

Look, look, we've got to get you

back home.

Yeah.

No, no, no, don't.

Whew.

Look, we've got to get you home.

- Let me help you up.

- No, no.

- You can kiss my ass.

- Eh?

You'll have to kill me first.

Yeah? How did you get behind...

behind our lines?

I got a whole company of men

right behind that curtain

over there, you sorry

sack of Hun sh*t.

Drop that weapon!

Jim, have you... have you

gone completely mad?

- JIM:
Yeah.

- What?

I'm not a German, Jim.

It's Kingsley.

German Jim Kingsley...

good alias.

Is that how you got back here,

Mr. Alias?

Let me see your orders now.

Your orders.

Who won the 1916 World Series?

I haven't the faintest idea.

Boston Red Sox in six.

Ja, ja!

All right, all right. All right.

- Yeah.

- Jim, calm down. Calm down.

Who do you think you's fooling,

you cabbage head?

Open your mouth.

No, I'm... I'm English.

We fought on the same side.

But it's not the Great War now.

It's 1969.

So please, please,

please put the gun down.

Oh my God.

KINGSLEY:
Heavens.

Jim!

Where's Daddy?

Is he back yet?

He's hunting

with the old man Bedford.

What's going on?

Alan put LSD in Daddy's ice tea.

- He f***ing what?

- DONNA:
Where did Alan get LSD?

Did he say where he was going?

Yeah, they're out

along Ten Mile Creek.

Okay, come on, come on.

Let's go. Let's go.

- Get your truck.

- Lord have mercy.

Jim!

Daddy!

Hey, Daddy!

Daddy! Hey, Daddy!

- Daddy!

- Daddy!

- Daddy!

- CARROLL:
Hey, Daddy!

- Father!

- Daddy!

Y'all, shut up.

It ain't kindergarten.

Daddy!

All right, Carroll,

you go this way.

You go that way.

CARROLL:
Daddy!

Donna, you get your ass

over here.

- Beautiful!

- KINGSLEY:
Jim.

I never knew it was so

beautiful.

God, it's so beautiful.

We really have to return

to the truck.

PHILLIP:
Father!

Phillip!

- I found him!

- JIMBO:
Looky here.

Hey! Come on!

Come on, Kingsley.

JIM:
Get your skinny

little ass in here!

- Thank God. Are you all right?

- Yes, yes, I'm all right.

Poor Jim has completely

lost his mind.

JIM:

Uh-oh, here comes the police.

What are y'all looking at?

PHILLIP:
What on earth

happened?

KINGSLEY:

I've been worried about Jim

for the last hour and a half.

JIM:
Come on in.

I love it. I love it.

JIMBO:
You got a 70-some-odd

year old man out there!

He could have hurt himself!

ALAN:
I didn't know

he was gonna be going hunting.

JIMBO:
Son, he's out there

running around the woods

with a gun!

He could have killed

that goddamn Englishman!

ALAN:
Yeah, but he didn't, Dad.

It's okay. God.

JIMBO:
Boy, it ain't about

what he didn't do!

It's about

what it could have been!

KINGSLEY:
Oh, well.

JIMBO:
What the hell

has gotten into you?

I raised you

better than this, boy.

Did you think of me?

Did you think of your mama?

What do you think

your mama's gonna think of this?

How is he?

ALAN:

Exactly what I was thinking.

- About the same.

- ...you had to live with you.

According to Carroll,

it could take a long time

for the drug to wear off.

ALAN:
You don't ever care

about nobody but what you want.

JIMBO:
Son, I'm gonna

tell you right now,

I would never do that

to my father!

I'm glad you're safe though,

Father.

JIMBO:
I would never do that

to my father!

I was worried about you.

JIMBO:

How the hell could you do that?

Nothing to worry about.

I've been in tighter spots.

JIMBO:
You're disrespecting me

right now!

You're gonna be

grounded forever!

- You understand?

- Phillip...

- ALAN:
You can't ground me.

- JIMBO:
I sure as sh*t can!

- Last night I...

- ALAN:
I'll just run away!

I think I said some things

I didn't really mean.

- I didn't either, Father.

- ALAN:
You ain't gonna hit me!

ALAN:
You ain't gonna hit me!

JIMBO:
You ain't too big

to spank, you understand me?

ALAN:
I'm going away

to Carroll's.

Let's just put it behind us

and go on.

JIMBO:
You get your ass up

to that room.

Get your ass up to that...

ALAN:
You can't tell me

what to do!

- KINGSLEY:
Oh, yes.

- JIMBO:
I sure as sh*t can.

As long as you're

in this house...

- Go on.

- ...you're mine!

ALAN:
Well, I hate this house!

And I f***ing hate you!

JIMBO:
Better don't come out

till I tell you to come out!

My billfold got wet in the

creek.

Take all the stuff out,

spread it all out and dry it.

- Okay?

- Okay.

- See?

- Where is it?

It were in there.

Yeah. Just dry everything...

my license and whatnot...

and that damn letter of yours.

- I don't understand.

- What?

All these years you've been

carrying this around.

Why not say

it meant something to you?

It's not gonna kill you

to talk to your kids, Pops.

You might be surprised

what happens.

What's the matter

with your head?

Huh?

I can't!

I can't breathe!

I can't breathe!

- Daddy, Daddy.

- I can't breathe.

Daddy, it's Jimbo.

I'm right here.

- I can't breathe.

- I'm right here.

Let's get you up.

Come on.

I can't breathe.

I can't breathe.

Skip, don't just stand there.

- It's swelling me up!

- Get over here and help me.

- I can't breathe!

- Let's take him outside.

Come on.

It's pretty to look at,

but it ain't good fire though!

I can't breathe!

Motherf***er!

I can't breathe! Hey!

I can't breathe!

- Come on, Daddy.

- I can't breathe!

- Come on.

- No! I can't! I can't breathe!

- Come on.

- I can't breathe!

Watch that step, Daddy.

- You steady him, Skip.

- What's that?

I'm gonna go make

some more coffee.

All right.

Did you need me

to hold you up, Daddy?

Uh, hold yourself up.

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Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician. Thornton had his first break when he co-wrote and starred in the 1992 thriller One False Move, and received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He appeared in several major film roles in the 1990s following Sling Blade, including Oliver Stone's neo-noir U Turn (1997), political drama Primary Colors (1998), science fiction disaster film Armageddon (1998), the highest-grossing film of that year, and the crime drama A Simple Plan (1998), which earned him his third Oscar nomination. In the 2000s, Thornton achieved further success in starring dramas Monster's Ball (2001), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), and Friday Night Lights (2004); comedies Bandits (2001), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), and Bad Santa (2003); and action films Eagle Eye (2008) and Faster (2010). In 2014, Thornton starred as Lorne Malvo in the first season of the anthology series Fargo, earning a nomination for the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie at the Emmy Awards and won Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Film at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards. In 2016, he starred in an Amazon original series, Goliath, which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. Thornton has been vocal about his distaste for celebrity culture, choosing to keep his life out of the public eye. However, the attention of the media has proven unavoidable in certain cases, his marriage to Angelina Jolie being a notable example. Thornton has written a variety of films, usually set in the Southern United States and mainly co-written with Tom Epperson, including A Family Thing (1996) and The Gift (2000). After Sling Blade, he directed several other films, including Daddy and Them (2001), All the Pretty Horses (2000), and Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012). Thornton has received the President's Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, a Special Achievement Award from the National Board of Review, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has also been nominated for an Emmy Award, four Golden Globes, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In addition to film work, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released four solo albums and is the vocalist of the blues rock band The Boxmasters. more…

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