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The Neon Bible

The Neon Bible

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Summary

Drama starring Gena Rowlands, Diana Scarwid and Denis Leary. The life of a young boy growing up in a small town in the Bible Belt of the American South during the 1940s changes dramatically with the arrival of his glamorous and eccentric Aunt Mae.

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Review

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Adapted from the novel by John Kennedy Toole, this measured, beautifully photographed but harrowing study of family angst in Georgia around the time of the Second World War marked the American debut of director Terence Davies. Although far from his Liverpool home, Davies revisits much of the territory covered in his acclaimed Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes. Yet he manages to breathe some new life into the familiar small-town formula, thanks to his keen eye for detail and a supremely assured performance from Gena Rowlands as the nightclub singer aunt who shakes up the lives of the ten-year-old Drake Bell and his careworn parents Diana Scarwid and Denis Leary.

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6.2/10

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Cast

rolenameAunt MaeGena RowlandsSarahDiana ScarwidFrankDenis LearyDavid aged 15Jacob TierneyBobbie Lee TaylorLeo BurmesterMiss ScoverFrances ConroyReverend WatkinsPeter McRobbieFloraJoan GloverDavid aged tenDrake Bell

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rolenameDirectorTerence Davies

Details

Theatrical distributor

Artificial Eye Film Co. Ltd

Released on

1995-10-06

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains violence and swearing.

Available on

video

Formats

Colour

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