Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton has wrote, directed and acted in this ensemble cast about dysfunctional family in Arkansas. His wife's uncle Hazel is charged with attempted murder. Hazel is played by the late Jim Varney (Ernest). Varney is completely different here. Andy Griffith plays the family patriarch. Laura Dern plays Ruby, Claude's wife. Her real life mother Diane Ladd plays her on screen mother. Brenda Blethyn OBE plays a British psychologist married into the family. Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Affleck plays mismatched couple of attorneys. I believe Blethyn had the best scenes of all. After watching Sling Blade, I could see Billy Bob's genius as actor, director, and screenwriter. This film is more light hearted than Sling Blade. The film has some problems but it's fairly enjoyable.
Review of Daddy and Them
