Event

SLIFF - Jayne Mansfield's Car

Jayne Mansfield's Car

Billy Bob Thornton, U.S., 2012, 122 min.

Sunday, Nov. 11, 6:30 p.m., Hi-Pointe

Academy Award-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton ("Slingblade") directs this poignant multigenerational drama about Jim Caldwell (Robert Duvall), who raises four children alone after his wife abandons him for another man and moves to England. When the ex-wife dies 30 years later, in 1969, she leaves a request to be brought back to her former home in Alabama to be buried, and her second husband (John Hurt) travels to the United States with his own two grown children to attend the funeral. The two dysfunctional families meet for the first time, with predictably uneven but often surprising results. Set during the Vietnam War and haunted by the ghosts of World War II, "Jayne Mansfield's Car" explores not only complex family dynamics but the effect of combat on the complicated relationships between fathers and sons. The film's all-star cast includes Thornton, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick, and Frances O'Connor. With production executive Jere Hausfater.