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Synopsis: Real estate developers descend upon a sleepy coastal Florida community with the promise of big money and bigger changes. Torn between honoring family obligations and the lure of quick cash, the locals greet the outsiders with a wildly mixed reception. Marly Temple is eager to give in and sell the family business to start over her life. As caretaker of her father's motel and cafe, she has grown resentful of missed opportunities. However, she finds a glimmer of hope in a tentative romance with a visiting landscape architect. Desiree Perry left town many years ago to escape a scandal and make a name for herself as an actress. Reluctantly returning home, she finds her strong willed mother unwilling to let go of the past.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): John Sayles
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  7 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
PG-13
Year:
2002
141 min
$2,836,157
Website
190 Views


desire for privacy...

...with the convenience

and the socializing opportunities...

...provided by the village concept.

It doesn't look like much now,

but when Jack's finished--

-What goes here?

-Our main drainage basin.

-It's a lake.

-A lake?

It'll be 14 feet deep.

What we dig out will form a hill.

-With a deluxe home on top of it.

-Deluxe?

With all the amenities:

A river view, the lake.

-Elevation.

-Damn! These bugs gonna be here too?

Anaesthesiologist.

If there's a surgical procedure,

I render the patient unconscious.

You knock people out with gas?

That's pretty much it.

-I'd be afraid not to wake up.

-A lot of people feel that way.

-Reggie's the head of his department.

-Is that right?

And at such a prestigious hospital.

I'll have to tell that to Dr. Lloyd.

-Dr. Lloyd still coming down?

-He lives here now.

His Etta Mae passed some years ago.

You wouldn't have heard that,

would you?

-She doesn't write, she doesn't call.

-Mama.

Girl caught the first thing smoking

and never looked back.

I took the bus, Mama. Not the train.

It's an expression.

Terrell? Go run this gravy through

the microwave again. It's gone cold.

-And who is that?

-Your cousin, Sidney Wilkins' son.

Sidney that married Athena Hines.

Well, why isn't he with them?

She doesn't write, she doesn't call.

I'm surprised she even let on

she got married.

Her own mother doesn't

get invited to the wedding.

It was a civil service, Mama.

It wasn't in church.

-But it's legal?

-It's legal, it's official. Don't worry.

Something they do up there.

What is it?

Boston.

Somehow, I've never been

north of Washington, D.C.

You'll just have to come visit us.

When Terrell's out of school,

maybe we'll do that.

How about that, Terrell?

You like to see Boston?

The proposed boundary for Delrona

Beach will incorporate this area...

...including Lincoln Beach all the way

to the Exley Plantation track.

Excuse me.

If you want to make a motion, wait

till Commissioner Pinkney's finished.

-I want to register a protest.

-In regard to what?

This meeting was not

properly advertised.

We met all legal requirements.

You purposely chose a time when our people

would be unable to attend.

The residents of Lincoln Beach?

You know very well many of us

are only here on weekends.

Many are only summer people.

That doesn't deny us the right

to object to this expropriation.

-Incorporation.

-You've already taken a third of our area.

You know that was

a private transaction...

...between Exley Plantation Estates

Planned Community...

...and the individual property owners.

This commission didn't know about it

until the plans were submitted.

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John Sayles

John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor and novelist. He has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996). His film Men with Guns (1997) has been nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. His directorial debut, Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980), has been added to the National Film Registry. more…

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