Truthahnfieber

Originaltitel: Vernon, Florida

1981
Not Rated
55 Min.

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7,0/10

3726

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA documentary on the eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.A documentary on the eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.A documentary on the eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.

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7,0/10

3726

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Originally titled Nub City, this follow-up to Gates of Heaven was initially focused on residents of the Southern town who cut off their own limbs as a way to collect insurance money. After Morris's life was threatened by the subjects of the film, he re-worked Nub City into Vernon, Florida.

Patzer
No taxes... is incorrect. Everyone who owns property in Florida pays taxes on it, or else it gets seized.

Zitate
Claude Register: You ever seen a man's brains? I've seen them. I've picked them up, scooped them up. Put them in, do them up like brains. You buying brains?

Verbindungen
Featured in Sneak Previews: Missing/Ticket to Heaven/Vernon, Florida/The Seduction (1982)

Soundtracks
When We All Get to Heaven
Hymn sung by church choir

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8/10

Truth IS Stranger Than Fiction

This documentary of a Smalltown, USA in rural Florida is a one-of-a-kind true comedy. Morris' choosing of the particular characters recorded and the events chronicled are genius. A quirky preacher who shares with us and his congregation his logic on semantics; a hunter who "specializes" in turkey gobblers; and an elderly man who likes to catch and keep wild critters all add to the deliciously funny charm of this documentary of rural life. His style of letting the characters speak for themselves is truly a work of art in this film. Watching "Vernon, Florida" is the equivalent of reading the "Foxfire" journals with a similar dose of the arcane knowledge that only rural, American, small-town residents possess. Definitely worth watching more than once.