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6.8/10
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A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 3 nominations
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- TriviaThe film cast includes two Oscar winners: Mary Steenburgen and Timothy Hutton; and three Oscar nominees: Jane Alexander, John Sayles and Angela Bassett.
- GoofsWhen the bulldozer is about to tear down the trees, there are tracks in the dirt from previous takes.
- Quotes
Marly Temple: The important thing is to keep that smile on your face, even when you're drowning.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: Lilo & Stitch/Sunshine State/Juwanna Mann (2002)
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... the fast forward button is definitely your friend on this one. This is basically a good story with some interesting characters, but most of the scenes are waayy tooo loooong! The plot revolves around the struggle between greedy developers and the good folks of Plantation Island, Fl. Of course we get the standard weaving of personal struggles into the bigger story line, and this is where this picture fails. Many of these sub-plots go on forever and are never resolved. It's almost like the director decided after 2 1/2 hours "gee I guess I better end the movie now". This film features many very good, well known actors (Edie Falco, Gordon Clapp, Mary Steenburgen, just to name a few), and they all do a excellent jobs, given the overall weakness of the script. I give this movie a 5/10.
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- plbrooks
- Nov 30, 2002
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- Also known as
- La tierra del sol
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Box office
- Budget
- $5,600,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,065,921
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $93,072
- Jun 23, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $3,369,654
- Runtime2 hours 21 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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