Jayne Mansfield's Car
Jayne Mansfield's Car is a 2012 drama film directed by Billy Bob Thornton, marking his first fiction directing job since 2000's All the Pretty Horses. Thornton also stars alongside Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson, Frances O'Connor, Ron White, and Robert Patrick. The film had its world premiere at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012. The film was released in limited release on September 13, 2013.
Plot
The film is set in 1969 Morrison, Alabama. The Caldwell family includes three World War II veterans, their sister Donna, and a patriarch, Jim, who is a World War I veteran. The Caldwells are involved in a cultural clash with the Bedfords, a family which includes Phillip, a World War II veteran, his sister Camilla, and their father Kingsley, also a World War I veteran.
More details
| author | Billy Bob Thornton Tom Epperson |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Alabama |
| director | Billy Bob Thornton |
| editor | Lauren Zuckerman |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | decapitate jayne mansfield london movie star supposedly decapitated tennessee williams world war i world war ii |
| musicBy | Owen Easterling Hatfield |
| producer | Alexander Rodnyansky |
| productionCompany | Alexander Rodnyansky |
| publisher | Anchor Bay Entertainment |
| recordedAt | Atlanta |