Branson’s 108 live shows attract seven million visitors a year. With that kind of business, it’s not surprising to find performers of every ilk trying to make it big in this little city tucked away in the scenic Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri’s bible belt. For this engaging and often heartbreaking film, director Brent Meeske followed the performers of three acts playing at a Branson strip mall—two in actual theaters and …...
- 6/19/2009
- indieWIRE - People
Branson’s 108 live shows attract seven million visitors a year. With that kind of business, it’s not surprising to find performers of every ilk trying to make it big in this little city tucked away in the scenic Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri’s bible belt. For this engaging and often heartbreaking film, director Brent Meeske followed the performers of three acts playing at a Branson strip mall—two in actual theaters and …...
- 6/19/2009
- indieWIRE - People
By Steve Pond
When the documentary “Branson,” which comes to the Los Angeles Film Festival this weekend, catches an ornery Johnny Cash impersonator named Jackson Cash playing for free lunch at a food court in a Branson, Missouri, mall, it was flashback time for me.
I’ve never been in the food court, but I was in that mall in the spring of 1992 -- walking alongside the real Johnny Cash as he pushed a shopping cart through the men’s department of Wal-Mart.
He tossed eight pairs of black socks into the cart, threw in a pair of shiny black sweatpants … and then, i...
When the documentary “Branson,” which comes to the Los Angeles Film Festival this weekend, catches an ornery Johnny Cash impersonator named Jackson Cash playing for free lunch at a food court in a Branson, Missouri, mall, it was flashback time for me.
I’ve never been in the food court, but I was in that mall in the spring of 1992 -- walking alongside the real Johnny Cash as he pushed a shopping cart through the men’s department of Wal-Mart.
He tossed eight pairs of black socks into the cart, threw in a pair of shiny black sweatpants … and then, i...
- 6/18/2009
- by Lew Harris
- The Wrap
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