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Successful Carolinian George Johnsten meets Chicago art gallery owner Madeleine at an electoral benefit art auction- love at first sight. Madeleine decides to meet a Southern original artist, so George seizes the opportunity to come along and present her to his North Carolina parents Eugene and Peg, drop-out brother Johny and his high-pregnant wife Ashley. Confronting the outsider soon opens a can of worms as emotions revive or emerge, like admiration and jealousy.
Following a short week-long courtship, upscale Chicagoans George and Madeleine get married. Six months into their marriage, Madeleine, the owner curator of an art gallery specializing in the works of self-taught artists, has the chance to sign David Wark, a yet unknown artist who lives in rural North Carolina. Madeleine and George use the opportunity of Madeleine to meet with Wark personally to visit Georges southern fundamentalist Christian family, who also live in rural North Carolina, a half hour away from Wark. This visit will be Madeleines first meeting with Georges family, who consists of: his quiet father, woodworker Eugene; his quietly but still obviously disapproving mother, Peg; his deadbeat and always angry brother, Johnny; and Johnnys nine month pregnant wife, the upbeat Ashley, who tries to see the good in everything. Despite having nothing in common on the surface with his southern roots, George still loves his family. And Madeleine wants so much for Georges family to like her, despite their obvious differences. These differences may become an issue for their marriage, especially as Madeleine has problems in her negotiations with Wark, and as Johnny and Ashley deal with their own marital and family issues.
Embeth Davidtz
Madeleine
Alessandro Nivola
George
David Kuhn
Auctioneer
Alicia Van Couvering
Bernadette
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Matt Besser
Scout who goes in
Will Oldham
Bill Mooney, scout
Frank Hoyt Taylor
David Wark
Scott Wilson
Eugene
Ben McKenzie
Johnny
Celia Weston
Peg
Amy Adams
Ashley
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Beth Bostic
Lucille, the neighbor
Joanne Pankow
Sissy, David Wark's sister
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Bud, young pastor
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