2001 Directed by Billy Bob Thornton
When an uncle is charged with murder, the event reverberates throughout a poor Arkansas family, including a struggling musician and his wife, her mother, her sister, and his father.
Billy Bob Thornton Laura Dern Brenda Blethyn Andy Griffith Diane Ladd Kelly Preston Jim Varney John Prine Walton Goggins Tuesday Knight Sandra Seacat Jeff Bailey Daniel Steven DiVito Jamie Lee Curtis Ben Affleck James Michael Andrews Claire Basham Logan Carelock Richard Crowe Susan Carol Davis Thomas Chander Duke Chris Ellis Wayne Emmons Becky Fly Amanda Foreman Tamara Glynn Benjamin Greene Jr. Bellina Logan Brent Douglass Lynn Show All…
Redneck twee, but it really works. Dark humor and a certain eye for quirky framing and composition gives this film a weird Coens (everyone fucking says this)/Wes Anderson vibe, but filtered through... a fucked up Andy Griffith? Jeff Foxworthy? White trash David E. Kelley? That last one's probably the furthest from accurate, but I like the idea. Better yet: John Waters if he were from Arkansas. (Would you ask Tom Petty that question?)
Well cast (even Ben Affleck is good!), with John Prine being the major standout (saw him live in... 98? 99? so good, "Lake Marie" live is just rib-shakingly good music). Unflinchingly corny (it ends with Prine spewing relationship wisdom as an obvious brick joke), crude (all the…
For such a middling movie... this really does have an exceptionally impressive cast
Billy Bob Thornton
Laura Dern
Kelly Preston
Diane Ladd
Jamie Lee Curtis
Ben Affleck
Jim Varney (!!)
Andy Griffith
Brenda Blethyn
John Prine (!!!!!!)
Walton Goggins
Also it was one of the few non-Tarantino movies that Sally Menke edited which is insane.
Occasional moments of a spark, but unfortunately not much. Wish it was better!
Daddy and Them, the third directorial effort from Billy Bob Thornton, sat in the Miramax vault before being relegated to a TV release and it is easy to see why it was slow to find an audience. It’s not that it is terrible but it is a film that ambles along never really finding a focal point and relying on characters that are not easy to warm to. What undoubtedly saves the film is the cast Thornton has managed to assemble. Naturally he casts himself in the lead role and delivers a typically charismatic and easy performance but it is the cast around him that most impresses and surprises. Laura Dern, Andy Griffith, Brenda Blethyn, Ben Affleck, Jamie Lee Curtis…
Daddy and Them is a romantic/sentimental comedy with a trashy redneck coating -- written and directed by, as well as starring, Billy Bob Thornton.
It mainly follows Billy Bob and Laura Dern, a poor, married couple who learn that Billy Bob's uncle is in jail. The entire family decides to get together and stay with their parents, the father being Andy Griffith, while they work on getting the uncle out of jail.
The dialogue, especially, is quite good at times, and there's a great collection of quirky scenes and characters populating the story.
The only knock I'd give it is to say that the individual scenes work better than the story as a whole. In other words, many of the…
It isn’t a very good movie at all, it’s pretty dull and boring. What brings it up to 2 stars for me is the performances from Laura Dern and Billy Bob Thornton. They made me care about their characters and they had decent chemistry. I also think there’s a certain charm to the whole thing that makes me think it was well intentioned.
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A ponderous, atmospheric family drama. It takes a while to settle into the universe Billy Bob creates here, but it ends up being a truly beautiful film. John Prine is a revelation.
This movie stars Billy Bob Thorton, Laura Dern, John Prine (!!!) and Andy Griffith. It’s the debut of Walton Goggins. Pure delight. Amazing that I haven’t heard of it. Great southern feelgood joint from half of my favorite people.
Don't go by the poster of this film. It's a quirky take on Southern idiosyncrasies. The cast is perfect especially a scene stealing Affleck and Curtis! Plenty of hilarious moments as well as being touching at the same time.
Insipid and boring. This movie would be 1000% more interesting if it was from the perspective of Walton Goggins and Jim Varney’s characters.
This is just one of those really bad early aughts indie movies that is set in a small town, the characters all have really bad unidentifiable southern accents, and nothing happens the the entire time.
This was Jim Varney’s last live action role and the only good thing this movie did was dedicate it to him.
I had always heard the song "In Spite Of Ourselves" by John Prine and had no idea it was tied to a movie. Found out it was this particular movie and out of curiosity I watched it. I later found out that this film never had a theatrical release and instead was released straight to video, and I can understand why. It's not bad, just really slow. The cast did pretty well, though.
This was rubbish. Waited ages for Ben to show up and then he’s barely in it. Waste of time.
Billy Bob Thornton. Het is een naam die we geneigd zijn onder te brengen in de categorie van de betere acteur, maar helaas vrezen we voor hem dat hij ook wat het soort mens is dat niet vaak neen durft te zeggen (of wie weet heeft hij gewoon niet altijd zo’n goede smaak) waardoor zijn filmografie een heleboel titels bevat waarvan je je afvraagt hoe hij zich over de streep heeft laten trekken. We onthouden van hem vooral U-Turn van Oliver Stone, het misdaaddrama A Simple Plan wat hem een Oscar-nominatie opleverde, zijn rol als bruut in Monster’s Ball tegenover Halle Berry, zijn briljant acteerwerk in The Man Who Wasn't There van de Coen-broertjes en natuurlijk als zuipende kerstman in…
This movie has a nice cast, but it ultimately comes up short in the story category. It has a few laughs, but is just not a good movie. I don't want to waste anymore writing on t this sub par movie.
This has John Prine in it and I had no idea he acted... Which is very fitting because this movie felt like a folk song.
Hillbilly Elegy, eat your heart out!
What a revelation! A movie no one remembers... being THIS good! This movie was hilarious and touching in pretty equal measure. Everyone in the huge cast (look it over!) was great and had their moment or more to shine. Billy Bob, you’re a legend.
Don't go by the poster of this film. It's a quirky take on Southern idiosyncrasies. The cast is perfect especially a scene stealing Affleck and Curtis! Plenty of hilarious moments as well as being touching at the same time.
How did such a impressive cast of actors end up in this crazy ass redneck mess of a movie? It's not a total waste but I think you'd enjoy it much more if you were under the influence while watching it.
t is quite amazing sometimes how movies pass under the radar, despite the fact that well known actors star in them. Most of the time the production firms do not value the movie high enough and pass it on to DVD or Cable release. Although it features Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Kelly Preston, Billy Bob Thornton's movie about a White Trash family in Arkansas reconnecting after one family member is arrested cannot deliver enough dynamics or vibes. Is it a black comedy or more of a drama ? Difficult to tell. It seems Miramax wasn't sure either so they stashed it away. Maybe a good decision. 5.2/10
Insipid and boring. This movie would be 1000% more interesting if it was from the perspective of Walton Goggins and Jim Varney’s characters.
This is just one of those really bad early aughts indie movies that is set in a small town, the characters all have really bad unidentifiable southern accents, and nothing happens the the entire time.
This was Jim Varney’s last live action role and the only good thing this movie did was dedicate it to him.
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