Junebug

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Junebug
Review added by
David Beckett

Certificate: 15
Running Time: 107
Retail Price: £12.99
Release Date: 18/04/2011
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
When Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a dealer in "outsider" art, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local painter for her gallery, she and her brand-new, younger husband George (Alessandro Nivola) extend the trip to include an introduction to his family: his prickly mother Peg; his taciturn father Eugene; his angry younger brother Johnny, who has always suffered in the shadow of his over-achieving brother; and Johnny's very pregnant and innocently garrulous wife Ashley (Amy Adams).

Although Ashley immediately takes to the sophisticated Madeleine and embraces her as a sister, the other members of George's family, especially his mother, are less than receptive. Tensions mount when Ashley goes into labor and each family member's priorities, Madeleine's included, are confronted.

Special Features:
• Full-length commentary with Amy Adams and Embeth Davidtz
• Amy Adams interview and Q&A session in London, March 2006
• 10 deleted scenes
• 5 behind the scenes documentaries
• Original casting sessions (Amy Adams, Benjamin McKenzie)
• Ann Wood Art Gallery
• 16 page booklet

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