This is one of my favorite movies, because it brings me smack dab back to my four years of college in Houston. I can understand people who haven't lived in Texas thinking this movie is poor or nonsensical. I'm not even sure what it is about it, that so perfectly captures what I love about Texas and Texans, but I'll try...
First off the Dairy Queen! You have to have at least driven through a big swathe of TX to realize that every small town has a DQ, and its often more of a town nerve center than City Hall. In some places I think it IS the City Hall. That's a delicious inside joke.
Let's see...making a hobby of sitting in the hot tub, drinking vodka and shooting up the dog house. "Our steaks are in the deep freeze...we'd all be so drunk by the time they thawed out, no tellin' who'd get shot!"
Lester getting suicidal, then springing himself from "the quiet room" to go help look for the old man that fell out of the car, when he tried to spit out his tobacco.
Um, four people and a dog driving in a pickup truck. Voluntarily. (OK two of them were the tweeny twins, but still.)
I don't know about all of the sleeping around, but all of the moving around (Karla and kids at Jacy's, Jacy at Karla and Duane's, Mary Lou and Jacy taking road trips with Duane just for the hell of it)...so many of the native Texans I've known are restless to the point of ADD.
And just the wacky, emphatic but heartfelt attitude, Karla more than any of them. As others have noted, Annie Potts darn near steals the entire movie. But I thought the whole cast did well.
First off the Dairy Queen! You have to have at least driven through a big swathe of TX to realize that every small town has a DQ, and its often more of a town nerve center than City Hall. In some places I think it IS the City Hall. That's a delicious inside joke.
Let's see...making a hobby of sitting in the hot tub, drinking vodka and shooting up the dog house. "Our steaks are in the deep freeze...we'd all be so drunk by the time they thawed out, no tellin' who'd get shot!"
Lester getting suicidal, then springing himself from "the quiet room" to go help look for the old man that fell out of the car, when he tried to spit out his tobacco.
Um, four people and a dog driving in a pickup truck. Voluntarily. (OK two of them were the tweeny twins, but still.)
I don't know about all of the sleeping around, but all of the moving around (Karla and kids at Jacy's, Jacy at Karla and Duane's, Mary Lou and Jacy taking road trips with Duane just for the hell of it)...so many of the native Texans I've known are restless to the point of ADD.
And just the wacky, emphatic but heartfelt attitude, Karla more than any of them. As others have noted, Annie Potts darn near steals the entire movie. But I thought the whole cast did well.