Film Screening: 

Junebug

(Phil Morrison, 2005, 106 min, USA, in English, Color, Blu-Ray) 

-- Introduced by director Phil Morrison; Q&A to follow!

A dealer in outsider art threatens the equilibrium of her middle-class in-laws in North Carolina. Madeline is a go-getting art gallery owner from Chicago, recently married to George, a near-perfect Southern beau. When Madeline needs to close a deal with a reclusive North Carolina artist, George introduces her to his family: prickly mother Peg, taciturn father Eugene, cranky brother Johnny, and Johnny's pregnant, childlike wife Ashley, who is awe-struck by her glamorous sister-in-law. Madeline's presence exposes the fragile family dynamics as hidden resentments and anxieties surface.

-- Nominated for Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Academy Awards (2006)!

"The adult tensions and the tone take us to a place remembered so vividly that even if we don't know this corner of the South, we've somehow lived there or at least passed through." - Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

"Junebug is a movie that understands, profoundly and with love and sadness, the world of small towns; it captures ways of talking and living I remember from my childhood, with the complexity and precision of great fiction." - RogerEbert.com

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: Nasher Museum of Art and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI).