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Article: An appealing 'Junebug'; Worlds collide in heartfelt tale of Southern charm.(SHOW)(MOVIES)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2005
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Byline: Scott Galupo, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
What's the old saw: You can take the boy out of the red state, but you can't take the red state out of the boy? Oh, right; that's the new saw. But in his wonderfully affecting, soulful and funny first feature, "Junebug," music-video director and native North Carolinian Phil Morrison softens the edges of our media-driven culture wedge, dismantling caricatures as deftly as he seems to confirm them.
Just who are those bumpkins whom our metro overlords blame for the re-election of George W. Bush? Are they anything like the Johnstens of Winston-Salem, the quietly dysfunctional middle-class family so intimately ...