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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


If you hadn't already approved it,

they wouldn't have gone ahead.

As spokesman for the Exley Corporation,

I object to the implication--

-It has historic significance to us--

-We made several offers to--

A history that this commission

has consistently ignored!

You let them take away our cemetery.

Dr. Lloyd, we're talking old business.

If you dislike the current agenda--

We don't wanna be a part

of Delrona Beach...

...and they've made it clear they

don't want anything to do with us.

If beachfront prices hadn't risen,

there'd be no interest in merging--

-The concept of eminent domain--

-Is used to undermine our well-being!

Gentlemen, if we're going

to have a debate...

...I'm going to have to ask you

to follow procedure.

-I'm thinking of going out there again.

-Out where?

Tour.

Golfing?

It's kind of a syndicate.

A couple of dentists, a Buick dealer.

They wanna sponsor me

for a percentage of my winnings.

-How much can you make?

-First you have to qualify.

Then it just depends on where you

stand at the end of each tournament.

You did this before?

I tried a couple of years back.

It was fine till I got on the green.

You know...

...Iittle case of the yips.

It's an adrenaline thing.

You're in the middle of the back swing

of your putt, you tighten up and....

Yip.

Something like that.

And you had them bad?

Killer drive,

beautiful approach shot...

...and I just couldn't get

the damn thing in the hole.

That would seriously cut

into your winnings, wouldn't it?

-It's better now?

-I won't know until I get out there.

I can always sink them in practice.

So you'll be travelling a lot.

That's the life.

Are there, like, groupies?

I suppose. If you win.

I never could understand

wanting to watch it.

You know? It's like

those fishing shows on TV.

Does that make you feel bad?

I don't watch people wait on tables

or run the check-in desk.

Right, you don't.

Yip.

-This is too weird.

-Is it what you remember?

It's my room, yeah,

but that boy's been living in here.

We got some serious testosterone

working here. Now, he's what, exactly?

His daddy is my cousin.

Grew up kind of wild.

He's living here because...?

She wants me to drive them downtown

for some kind of hearing tomorrow.

-He's in trouble?

-She's not giving up any information.

Punish me a bit.

-For being gone so long.

-For everything.

She's the one who asked you

to come down, made the first move.

It's too weird.

You can hear the ocean.

I always loved that.

Hey, Lucky.

-They changed all the faades.

-Nobody but tourists shop here now.

-Where do the regular folks go?

-There's a shuttle bus to the mall.

It's just in here.

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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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