Truly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Start with every southern (and some just literary) stereotype you've ever seen:
Greedy southern aristocrats with legacy affecting today's descendants, black mammy who raises the white boy (and hums spirituals when troubled), pious mother praying for her spiritually lost son, cold distant father, beautiful blonde girl in latest fashion driving a beat-up old pick up, mysterious spirit guide who leads the main character to the right questions, blood oaths of fealty, selling one's soul for money, power mad despot, heavenly guidance via opening the bible at random and finding the right verse, Confederate decendent's obsession with THE WA-AHR, self sacrificial death to save another, William Falkner worship while writing crap, folksy black lawyer with spiritual knowledge and most of all, the same old southern accents that only exists in the minds of movie makers and yankee authors.
Add in hokey religious mysticism and lots of praying and you get one long, slow, stupid boring movie. The only people who will find this interesting are religious fundamentalists who haven't seen a movie since "Gone with the Wind"
Overwrought acting, idiotic plot, and hysterical music made it one boring movie.
Greedy southern aristocrats with legacy affecting today's descendants, black mammy who raises the white boy (and hums spirituals when troubled), pious mother praying for her spiritually lost son, cold distant father, beautiful blonde girl in latest fashion driving a beat-up old pick up, mysterious spirit guide who leads the main character to the right questions, blood oaths of fealty, selling one's soul for money, power mad despot, heavenly guidance via opening the bible at random and finding the right verse, Confederate decendent's obsession with THE WA-AHR, self sacrificial death to save another, William Falkner worship while writing crap, folksy black lawyer with spiritual knowledge and most of all, the same old southern accents that only exists in the minds of movie makers and yankee authors.
Add in hokey religious mysticism and lots of praying and you get one long, slow, stupid boring movie. The only people who will find this interesting are religious fundamentalists who haven't seen a movie since "Gone with the Wind"
Overwrought acting, idiotic plot, and hysterical music made it one boring movie.