Synopsis
In a sleepy little mill town in North Carolina, Paul is the town Romeo. But when his best friend's sister returns home from boarding school, he finds himself falling for her innocent charm. In spite of her lack of experience and the violent protests of her brother, the two find themselves in a sweet, dreamy and all-consuming love.
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Cast
- Paul SchneiderPaul
- Zooey DeschanelNoel
- Shea WhighamTip
- Danny McBrideBust-Ass (as Danny R. McBride)
- Maurice CompteBo
- Heather McCombMary-Margaret
- Benjamin MoutonUncle Leland
- John KirklandJustin
- James Marshall CaseJudge Harvey
- Patricia ClarksonElvira
Recommendations
- 100
Austin Chronicle
It’s a movie made of moments, the antithesis of "plot-driven," but the sum of these moments is magnificent, the culmination of so many elements: acting, scripting, score (by locals Michael Linnen and David Wingo), and cinematography. - 90
Newsweek
The best movie of the last 20 years about young people in love is 1989’s. - 90
Time
Green shoots his groping lovers in the art-film style -- long takes, static frame -- but his tone isn't at all minimalist; it's achingly, breathtakingly romantic, like the old Hollywood love stories his kids have never seen. - 90
Wall Street Journal
Like his (David Gordon Green's) debut feature of three years ago, the exquisite "George Washington," this new one has my heart, and I think it will have yours. - 80
The New Republic
Green treats his people with affectionate knowledge, untinged with patronizing. And he sees them in ways that are free of cinematic cliché. - 75
Boston Globe
Green unquestionably has a rare, intermittent knack for rapture. - 75
ReelViews
Slow moving and low key, and, when the final credits roll, you feel like you have spent nearly two hours in the company of a few real people, not constructs of a writer's imagination. - 70
The A.V. Club
Deschanel and Schneider--who both give rich, funny performances--and everyone around them have inner lives that don't always translate into words. When they speak, it's usually in dialogue halfway between poetry and inarticulate fumbling.
