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Sep 10, 2013 · Robert Duvall and Billy Bob Thornton, respectively a titan and a reliably keen practitioner of American film acting, nearly elevate the ensemble Southern family dramedy Jayne Mansfield’s Car into transcending its doggedly cutesy and familiar instincts. As Jim Caldwell, remote patriarch of a well-to-do clan in a 1969 Alabama town, Duvall ...
Written and directed by Academy Award®-winner Billy Bob Thornton (ARMAGEDDON), and starring Kevin Bacon (TV's THE FOLLOWING), Ray Stevenson (THOR FRANCHISE), and Katherine LaNassa (TV'S DECEPTION). Brought together by the death of a woman who was married, first to the Southern American Jim Caldwell (Robert Duvall of THE GODFATHER), and then to the British Kingsley Bedford (John Hurt of TINKER ...
Jayne Mansfield’s Car is a tedious, depressing dysfunctional film about a tedious, depressing, dysfunctional pair of families, headed by patriarchs Robert Duvall and John Hurt, respectively. It seems that 30 years before, Kingsley Bedford (Hurt) stole Jim Caldwell’s (Duvall) wife, Naomi (Tippi Hedren, whose most famous role was in Alfred ...
Sep 13, 2013 · Aug 2, 2013. Thematically diffuse, tonally inconsistent and blighted by an inauthentic feel for its story’s time and place, it sits awkwardly between sober human drama and lighter dysfunctional-family turf, constantly striving for unearned emotions. Read More. By David Rooney FULL REVIEW. See All 18 Critic Reviews.
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Jayne Mansfield's Car. Edit. Mariska Hargitay (the daughter of Jayne Mansfield ), who was in the back seat when the crash killed her mother, said that she found the name of this movie "horrible" and wished they had asked her permission to use this title beforehand. Tippi Hedren 's scenes ended up on the cutting room floor.
