This extremely lightweight romance film depicts the American south as a bucolic paradise filled with polite and handsome (white) gen'lmen, ladylike (white) women, and amusing old (white) farmers who still drive mule-powered carts down the back roads. Tippi Hedren stars as a fancy pants Yankee outsider who comes to visit her uncle (Leslie Nielsen, in non-comedy mode) and ends up falling for handsome Linc (Barry Van Dyke). Along the way she learns important lessons about how women shouldn't be too uppity and how the native intelligence of hillbillies matches or exceeds that of most corporate bigwigs. Janet Dailey's screenplay is bland and uninspiring, with one-dimensional characters who trot through the story in completely predictable fashion. And wait till you see the dreadful special effects used to represent the titular phenomenon! Foxfire Light was shot on location in Branson, Missouri, which is now, of course, a tourist destination and decidedly short on hillbillies and mules.
Review of Foxfire Light
