Junebug

Synopsis: Successful Carolinian George Johnsten meets Chicago art gallery owner Madeleine at an electoral benefit art auction- love at first sight. Madeleine decides to meet a Southern original artist, so George seizes the opportunity to come along and present her to his North Carolina parents Eugene and Peg, drop-out brother Johny and his high-pregnant wife Ashley. Confronting the outsider soon opens a can of worms as emotions revive or emerge, like admiration and jealousy.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Phil Morrison
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 21 wins & 27 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
R
Year:
2005
106 min
£2,416,555
Website
1,102 Views


There's a lot of good people,

just point them out.

There. Mr. Wilson.

I'm going to mingle.

I'll see you later. Good luck.

Thank you.

So now we're onto the 3rd of 3 pieces

by Zeppelin Crespo tonight.

I believe this to be the best one...

at least the most interesting

and unusual.

This is what Crespo called

a head trumpet painting

or sometimes a flubug painting.

These were made during

a very brief period

between Crespo's incarcerations

and when public health records

first indicated a diagnosis of autism.

This painting,

lot number 21, is titled

"My True Love, True, True, True."

Let's start the bidding

for this amazing work at $7,000.

Ladies and gentlemen do I have $7,000

for this wonderful Crespo?

Thank you, ma'am.

Can I have $7,500 for a good cause?

$7,500, Bernadette has on the phone.

Do I have $8,000 in the back row,

sir, with the hat.

You like this one?

Let's get it to $8,500.

Come on people,

I know there's money in this crowd.

- $9,000, for this beautiful...

- It makes me happy.

But I'm going to buy the UFO.

$9,500, Bernadette has on the phone.

Do I have $10,000?

Where did you come from?

North Carolina

Allright, Charlie, I'll be right here.

Mr Wark.

Hello?

A Tweeleree repeating rifle...

I'm guess you never hear'd

that before, have you?

No sir, I haven't.

Well, I recon,

you never have

because it come to me in a vision.

Now, here...

I couldn't finish Lee's cock on the front...

so I painted around on the back.

That's General Lee's cock?

Ya.

Now this other one over here...

Madeline, he is really great.

I'm serious. We just saw...

this stuff is excellent

and when people hear his ideas...

Can I talk to him?

Let me talk to him.

Well, we're outside right now.

I'm standing outside...

but we were were just inside

and he's got tons of stuff

I'm telling you,

he's going to bowl people over.

You know what, don't crowd him, just...

I heard he's really shy.

Can you e-mail me pictures?

Find someplace, go to Kinko's or something.

Madeleine, this is Bill Mooney.

You remember me?

Oh of course I do.

I want to put my two cents in that

I agree that Wark is much better

for you than Micheaux would be.

And I think that you should

come down here yourself, maybe.

Because I think

he would really be into that.

And I think it would make

a big difference.

Oh. OK.

You are so great. Really.

Let me think about it.

And I'll call you back. OK bye.

He says he thinks it would make

a difference if I went down there.

Is this the Battle of Antietam?

Which one?

Oh, yeah.

I recognize the corn fields.

I love all the dog head men.

And computers. And all the scrotums.

Away on the sea...

I fear life goes for me,

viewing see spray and white caps astern.

Oh! A stout heart, my love,

pray God grants to me...

and a promise

of my safe return."

You know who wrote that?

Who wrote that?

Glow-ray.

You don't know her, do you?

I've never heard of her. Tell me.

That's because she come to me

in a dream. I dreamed that.

And I put it in the mouth

of a n*gger slave right there

in that picture after getting captured.

Bless his heart.

Who is that out there?

That's my husband George.

You met him.

He's got a nice face.

Oh, he's from here.

His family lives not too far away.

The Johnstons. Have you heard of them?

I see a face and it sticks in my head.

And I paint it.

I'll paint your legs if you want.

Put them in a painting

Cause you got pretty legs.

You ever heard that before?

Yes.

I bet you have.

I'm not kidding,

I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!

Yeah. I'll give him a day,

maybe and then I'm going to call.

Make sure you overnight the Cheerwine.

Cheer, like "Cheerleader".

Today.

I want him to have it immediately.

It's his favorite soda pop.

It's regional.

You can only get it down here.

George says

you can only get it down here.

So, do that?

OK, bye.

If this happens. Oh my God.

It will.

I think I'm in love.

It will!

You gonna make her a bird.

F***!

Where are the cigarettes?

Top of the fridge.

Where?

Right there.

I can't find them.

Then we're out.

I found them.

I told you, they were right there.

We're out of cigarettes.

You got any matches?

No.

Well, can I use your lighter?

Perhaps?

Thanks!

Don't mention it.

Are you too busy to help out?!

You too busy

with them coming any minute?

And I know I can't even ask you

what's new because if it ain't...

on the sport pages in the funnies

you won't know about it.

Holy cow.

Did you eat all the rest

of my eggs?

What did you do with my eggs?!

Stuffed them up my butt!

How come every time

I read the paper you bother me?

- Go somewhere else.

- I'm back.

I can't spread

the paper out anywhere else.

You got your own room to go to!

Have you seen all the sh*t

she's got in there?!

Where have you been?

Gone.

Did you go to the store?

Yeah.

Did you remember to get my Vantages?

No. I forgot.

I figured you would.

No cigarettes in the whole damn house.

And no eggs.

Where's Ashley?

How should I know?

What?

Have you met her?

Is she thin?

How could I have met here, Ashley?

Use your head.

I bet she is thin.

I bet she's prettier than I am, too.

I know I'm gonna hate her.

I can't wait.

Oh, did you know

I lost two more pounds?

Yesterday all I had to eat was

a hot dog with a little bit

of mustard and no bun.

I think you can tell that

I've lost some weight.

Johnny, look.

It's got all these exercises

you can do during your pregnancy.

It's got like 14 exercises

you can do after you give birth

to flatten your stomach.

Isn't that great?

You making that for them?

Yes. Don't mess. Go sit or something.

I can't! I'm too excited.

- Ashley, sit down!

- What's she like?!

Have you thought of anything? Huh?

'Cause I know if we have a little boy

that we'll name him Johnny,

but I was thinking that if we have

a girl we could name her Jonni too,

but just spell it with an "I".

What do you think?

I think it's stupid.

Well, so are you. You're stupid too.

Johnny, Ashley, Pat, Eugene.

Peg.

Peg. What did I say?

What did I say?

I'll be fine, right?

I'll be fine.

Was that a car door?

I thing they're here.

They're here!

Oh lord!

Damn it. Look at this mess!

Are you coming?

You haven't seen your brother

in 3 years!

Quit it!

I'd think you'd want to know what's

going on with him and welcome him.

Oh, for heaven's sake.

Come on Eugene, George is here.

George is here.

You're here! You're here!

You're here right where we live!

Hi! Hello!

Hi! Look at you. You're here.

- You're about to burst.

- I know. I wrote you about it.

You're so thin.

- Hi, Momma.

- Darling. I'm so glad to see you.

I thought you'd never get here.

Guess what's upstairs?

Mr. Johnsten.

Hi!

Wow, you're so beautiful!

Fermented cheese just for you.

- Hi, Pat.

- Hi.

How do you do?

Do you diet?

No. I run. And swim.

What was that?

I smashed your birdie!

- No, darling...

- Ashley!

I just bumped the wall. I'm sorry.

We can replace it. Can't we replace it?

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Angus MacLachlan

Angus MacLachlan is a playwright and screenwriter most famous for writing the screenplays for the 2005 film Junebug as well as the cult short film Tater Tomater. He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1980 and continues to reside in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He adapted one of his plays into the film Stone directed by John Curran and starring Robert De Niro, Milla Jovovich, and Edward Norton that was released in 2010. more…

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