The Dirty South

Absolutely loved The Dirty South!

From the authentic performances, beautiful scenery, fantastic music, and relatable storyline, I was wonderfully surprised.

First time director Matthew Yerby orchestrated this stellar cast to create real life performances not characters.

Dermot Mulroney is fantastic as the big bad in the story. My favorite character from My Best Friend's Wedding was nowhere to be seen.

Shane West was perfect as the dreamy drifter grifting his way through small towns.

Willa Holland was amazing as the female lead.

I'm used to seeing Willa in spoiled rich girl roles and her character Sue Parker is the furthest one could get from that. She is a badass without the cliche that generally accompanies this type of role.

Highly recommend!

This film is a fantastic example of telling interesting, underserved stories from places like the American South and Midwest. I'm absolutely sick of films about the one percent class living in massive cities on the coast with trivial, "rich-people-problems." This was a huge breath of fresh air, and a truly entertaining step into the gritty and dirty, yet magical world of the south. Yerby has talent for making seemingly archetypical characters into deep, relatable humans. This most likely like had a decently small budget compared to most films - but not a second of it felt cheap or compromised. Kickass story. Kickass soundtrack. If you didn't enjoy this, that's your loss. Can't wait to see what Yerby does next.

Great acting by Willa Holland, Wayne Pere and Shane West. Willa and Wayne really carried the movie. Some kissing, heavy petting, no real nudity. Some violence. The songs were great as well with artists like Jovin Webb, Spencer Brunson, Dorothy, Kori Lynn, Tyler Forest, Mus Gillum and Andrew Vogel. Many scenes felt real....human emotion. As in all movies, even 'based on true story' genre, suspension of disbelief helps yet real life is often stranger than fiction. The real downside is no mention of JESUS as the answer. Otherwise, believable tale of folks doing the best they can the best way they know how with what they have. Desperate measures for desperate times. Would watch it again.

I thought this movie was really boring the soundtrack moved it a long. But why someone would start a crime spree with a stranger who comes into town, she first sees as a pickpocket, to save a bar, is beyond me. There's the disagreement between 2 grown men over a woman that occurred decades ago. I was a part of a small town, there was some crime but this was stretching it. It's got the small town cliches that I just wasn't interested in. There was nothing new or exciting. I don't know what some consider action but I didn't think there was much in this movie. Ya, the characters were kind of likable but not worth watching this.

I think this movie was great!!! I loved the story line and the feeling of the movie... Everyone is doing wrong, but you're cheering for the one doing it for the right reasons... Definitely a movie I can watch more than once... I loved seeing the Natchitoches Christmas Festival of Lights in the movie especially since it is something my family has always enjoyed attending... The music was also fantastic and fit very well... the actors did a great job portraying the characters... the accents were on point and sometimes that's hard to get right for movies about the south... I definitely recommend giving The Dirty South a watch.