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Official Website: www.junebugmovie.com Release Date: August 3, 2005 (limited) Studio: Sony Pictures Classics Director: Phil Morrison Screenwriter: Angus MacLachlan Starring: Embeth Davidtz, Allesandro Nivola, Celia Weston, Scott Wilson, Benjamin McKenzie, Amy Adams, Amy Barefoot, Matt Besser, Beth Bostic, Katherine Foster, R. Keith Harris, Victoria Jackson, Tarra Jolly, David Kuhn, John McGee, Jerry Minor, Will Oldham, Joanne Pankow, Adrian Roberts, Chuck Russell, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Bobby Tisdale, Alicia Van Couvering, Caitlin Van Hecke, Gregory Wagner Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R (for sexual content and language) Trailer: Not Available Review: Click here DVD Review: Not Available DVD/VHS: Not Available Movie Poster: See below Buy Movie Poster: Not Available Production Stills: Not Available Plot Summary: When Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a British-born dealer in regional, "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 (Celia Weston); his taciturn father Eugene (Scott Wilson); his angry younger brother Johnny (Benjamin McKenzie), who has always suffered in the shadow of his over-achieving brother; and Johnny's very pregnant and innocently garrulous wife Ashley (Amy Adams). Madeleine confronts the difficulty of these two cultures colliding, and discovers the tumultuous outcome as these separate ways of life must coexist. 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. With George falling into his old routine of spending time alone, Madeleine relies almost entirely on Ashley to help her navigate the family dinners, Church meetings, and Ashley's baby shower, all while desperately trying to close the deal on the artist. Tensions mount when Ashley goes into labor and each family member's priorities, Madeleine's included, are confronted. | Images: Poster and Stills (click to enlarge) | |