One of the most anticipated summer films hits screens soon, and I've got a stack of passes for an advance screening.
If you'd like to see "The Help," based on Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel (more info at www.thehelpmovie.com), just enter below naming your favorite (up until now) book, TV show, or movie set in the South. I'll pick winners at random and send winning passes by e-mail.
Good luck.
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Luckily this is on the Internet and no one will see it! My official "this guy is classier than I thought" entry is: "Glory."
"Forrest Gump" is great but too easy
I also have heard raves about Swamplandia, set in Florida, so that it is on my TBR (to be read) pile.
However, I think my all-time favorite book that is set in the South is Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, set in Georgia. Ooo, just thinking of it makes me want to re-read it for the umpteenth time.
By the way, my favorite novel set in the Midwest is ...And Ladies of the Club, by Helen Hooven Santmyer. It is set in a small town in Ohio. It is a million pages long (the 5th Harry Potter is a tweet compared to this book!) and therefore it is a major commitment in terms of reading, but it was so very, very satisfying when I read it as a bestseller when I was in my 20s. I had made the "mistake" of joining the Quality Paperback Book Club and it was one of the random books that I received because I had not sent the "no thanks" card back in time. Happy mistake!
My favorite movie set in the South is probably "Fried Green Tomatoes."
By the way, if I win, when will the advance screening be?
Hope Baugh
Indy Theatre Habit (on hiatus from blogging but not from seeing shows)
"Fried Green Tomatoes" of course.
Has to be Forest Gump :-)
General Lee speaking of the loss of Gen. Jackson - "He's lost his left arm. I've lost my right".