Junebug

Junebug is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Phil Morrison. It was released on August 3, 2005 and stars Amy Adams, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, and Benjamin McKenzie. It was filmed at Wake Forest University, at Replacements, Ltd. in McLeansville, North Carolina and in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. When newlywed Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a British art dealer, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local, self-taught painter... more

Junebug is a 2005 comedy-drama film directed by Phil Morrison. It was released on August 3, 2005 and stars Amy Adams, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz, and Benjamin McKenzie. It was filmed at Wake Forest University, at Replacements, Ltd. in McLeansville, North Carolina and in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. When newlywed Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a British art dealer, travels from Chicago to North Carolina to pursue a local, self-taught painter (Frank Hoyt Taylor) for her outsider art gallery she takes the opportunity to meet her husband George's (Alessandro Nivola) family, who live close by. There's his flinty, judgmental mother Peg (Celia Weston); his reserved, contemplative father Eugene (Scott Wilson); and his sullen, resentful, twenty-ish brother Johnny (Benjamin McKenzie) who, although married, still lives at home, studying for his high school equivalence certificate while working at Replacements, Ltd. as an order processor. Johnny married Ashley before either of them finished... less