Vernon, Florida
by Errol Morris
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Actor: Albert Bitterling, George Harris, Howard Pettis, Joe Payne, Roscoe CollinsDirector: Errol Morris
Brand: MORRIS,ERROL
Cinematographer: Ned Burgess
Producer: Errol Morris
Editor: Brad Fuller
Producer: David R. Loxton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Vernon, Florida
Movie Review: amazing ways to grace
Summary: 5 Stars
In the Florida panhandle, halfway between Tallahassee and Pensacola but nowhere near a four-lane road, lies the village (2000 pop. 743) of Vernon. Renowned documentarian Errol Morris brought his camera to this town -- I don't know how he did it but the people reveal depth and demons that you wouldn't think they would express even before close friends. The town cop hates giving tickets and hopes that he and his squad car "just over the bridge coming into town" will be enough deterrent to speeders. A local minister seems blissfully unaware that the word "therefore" to illustrate linkage in the King James Bible was chosen not by St. Paul but by a panel of early 17th-Century academics -- until he turns around and scores with a novel interpretation. A nice couple relates that their one major vacation has been to the White Sands proving ground in New Mexico, and other than snow-bound mountains it's hard to find a place in the continental USA more unlike Vernon, with its year-round warmth and humidity and pervasive fecundity. As a souvenir, the couple brought back a mayonnaise jar of (what else?) white sand with claimed unusual properties.
The most stunning and significant revelations come from the most far-out Vernonites, the old sage men who are so open they'll tell of any aspect of their lives, from dry heaves to the finer points of wild-turkey hunting. On a pristine lake in late afternoon one man claims he can hear the buzzards (turkey vultures) murmuring in the trees (or is he trying to put us on?). At sundown in a tea-stained bayou an even older man noiselessly paddles around drowned trees and ruminates on life, while the changing light and color put us viewers into nearly a transcendent state from the sheer beauty of it all. It's at those times the interviews stop sounding like auditions for "Hee-Haw" and more like a real-life "Spoon River Anthology." What could have been a city-slicker's satire becomes instead a meditation on grace and how it happens, the subtle charms and profundities of the American backwoods, not specifically Florida.
VERNON, FLORIDA is a short film, less than an hour, but it contains a lot. IMHO the DVD will warrant multiple viewings; I know I want to see mine over and over again.
Summary of Vernon, Florida
Fire up the pickup and head down to this backwater town with "one of America's strangest and most brilliant documentary filmmakers" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times)! OscarĀ(r)-winning*director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) presents a pastiche of fascinating interviews with the weird and wonderful people of Vernon, Florida, in this "amusing portrait" (Variety) of oddball Americana! For the inhabitants of this Southern town, there's no place like home for the rest of us, there's no place like Vernon, Florida! From the passionate turkey-hunter to the peculiar pet collector, each member of this motley crew has a story to tell. And in the masterful hands of Morris, their obsessions and eccentricities reveal the heart and soul of an unabashedly unique slice of the American pie! *2003: Documentary Feature, Fog of War (with Michael Williams)Similar DVD Movies
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