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Article: 'Junebug' seems like art house version of 'Meet the Parents'.(Time Out!)(Movie critic)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2005
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Byline: Dann Gire
- Phil Morrison's observant, understated comic drama "Junebug" pulls off a neat and tough trick.
Where most Hollywood movies feature characters who evolve into better people by the closing credits, the characters in "Junebug" remain steadfastly the same. Only our perceptions of them change, and not always for the better.
This muted, contemplative work - call it the arthouse version of "Meet the Parents" - examines the conflicting emotions roiling beneath the skins of members of a dysfunctional, small-town North Carolina family when one of their own returns home with a sophisticated, big-city bride in tow.
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