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  • The Summer of Ben Tyler

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    Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.

  • Sling Blade

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    Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.

  • The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning

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    When mischievous teenaged cousins Bo and Luke Duke are arrested, both boys are paroled to the care of their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard, sentenced to a summer of hard work. It’s not long before the Duke boys learn of Boss Hogg’s plans to foreclose on Uncle Jesse’s farm. Together, with help from their cousin Daisy,…

  • The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

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    The tale of a lonely Southern woman’s longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the Williams play “Summer and Smoke,” which uses the same characters and setting but in dramatically different ways.