The War Room (1993), Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 (2000), A Face in the Crowd (1957), Sling Blade (1996), The Grace of Jake (2015), West of Memphis (2012), True Grit (2010), Thelma & Louise (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Arkansas movies.
Storyline: Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to become a star. Based partly on Darnells' early experiences in Hollywood. Wharton is a parody of Zanuck.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: actress, teenager, talent scout, football player, singer, girl, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
Plot Keywords: brother, baseball pitcher, wife, manager, baseball fan, radio personality, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Max Wharton, 39, is the editor of the New York Bulletin -- or he was, until he announces that he's quitting to join the army. Robert Gow, who owns the paper, is furious. But Wharton wants more than anything to be close to the war. And his wife, Polly, wants to be close to him. And so she finishes up her latest movie script, and follows her husband to live near the barracks. She lives in a bungalow with no shower, lights that you have to turn on and off from the outside, a refrigerator that makes a hideous noise when she's lucky (that means it's working), moths and other niceties. Meanwhile, Max, studying hard for his exams, is starting to believe the saw that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: editor, writer, owner, military wife, amusing, patriotic, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
Plot Keywords: moonshiner, sheriff, corrupt cop, prosecutor, criminal, thrilling, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, bears and moose.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: brother, documentarian, father, mother, young boy, spectacular, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jimmy's idol, James Dean, dies on September 30, 1955, the small-town Arkansas college undergraduate goes berserk. He and his friends hold a vigil which turns into a drunk and, finally, a tragedy.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: fan, young man, movie star, mourner, dead person, uneasy, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the wake of his older brother's death, 13-year-old Dayveon spends the sweltering summer days roaming his rural Arkansas town. When he falls in with a local gang, he becomes drawn to the camaraderie and violence of their world.
Plot Keywords: brother, gang member, friend, sister, father figure, sad, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Civil War is over and the South has fallen, but Col. Jonas (Joseph Cotten) has a plan to revive the Confederacy. He raids a Union Army detail and walks away with valuable treasure that he intends to put to use raising another rebel army. Jonas needs to keep the treasure safe during shipment, so he places it in a coffin and forces saloon girl Claire (Norma Bengell) to play widow. Claire is unwilling to do her part, however, and puts herself in danger by opposing the dangerous Jonas.
Plot Keywords: colonel, son, outlaw, saloon girl, alcoholic, thief, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
Plot Keywords: petty criminal, kingpin, friend, gang leader, brash, disturbing, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural, and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her, the more he fancies her.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: country girl, radio personality, reporter, doctor, amusing, lighthearted, chicago ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.
Plot Keywords: father, son, police officer, wealthy man, gritty, tense, arkansas ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.
Plot Keywords: business owner, business partner, investor, nazi, daredevil, promoter, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A biplane pilot's (Brad Davis) Bavarian bride (Marianne Sagebrecht) juggles computer credit creatively for her Arkansas family.
Plot Keywords: german, husband, son, daughter, bank manager, mother, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills, when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife, there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.
Plot Keywords: hillbilly, grandmother, niece, nephew, banker, assistant, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brother Edgar is a generous entrepreneur of low quality socks who hides behind a self-bestowed cassock to avoid the low level corruption of local sheriffs. He has adopted Morales Pittman, who has bigger, more illegitimate dreams than Edgar. The two travel about Arkansas, selling their socks and bumping into a variety of simple souls, including the eponymous mythic killer, who has engaged himself to Apple Lisa Weed and disavowed his life as a murderer. Morales Pittman joins forces with Miss Apple Lisa's dim-witted brother, Reggie, to extort money from the local bumpkins, to the annoyance of the reigning provider of "protection," Mr. Pines. Things come to a head as Edgar finds himself falling for the blind Eva Nell, who manages the best teahouse in Arkansas and Morales becomes more jealous of the place the Kid has taken in Edgar's heart.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: small-time crook, murderer, hostage, waitress, redneck, con artist, offbeat ...
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