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A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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Plot Synopsis
Taglines:
Every heart has an awakening. Every soul needs a song.
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Motion Picture Rating
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Rated R for a disturbing sexual assault of a young girl, and brief sexuality
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Release Date:
22 January 2007 (USA)
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Also Known As:
Untitled Dakota Fanning Project
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Box Office
Budget:
$3,750,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend USA:
$13,744,
21 September 2008, Limited Release
Gross USA:
$128,092, 7 December 2008
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Technical Specs
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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Trivia
David Morse and Robin Wright previously co-starred in 'The Crossing Guard (1995)'.
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Goofs
In the scene in which Dakota Fanning (Lewellen) is lying in the bed, the character played by Robin Wright Penn asks her to sing her an Elvis song. She sings part of "Can't Help Falling In Love" which was not recorded until 1961 for the movie "Blue Hawaii".
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Quotes
Lewellen:
What's that from?
Buddy:
What?
Lewellen:
That big ole bruise you got there.
Buddy:
Nothin'.
Lewellen:
I got one, too.
Buddy:
Where?
Lewellen:
Right here. My daddy did it.
Buddy:
My daddy don't hit me!
Lewellen:
Does so.
Buddy:
Does not, you liar!
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Soundtracks
I've Searched the Whole World Over
Written by Phyllis Otis (as Phillis Otis)
Performed by
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Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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A barefoot, backwoods pre-teenage girl in the 1950s Deep South, in love with Elvis Presley's music and with a budding interest in boys, comes-of-age one summer after her father is struck by lightning, leaving her vulnerable to the elements. Dakota Fanning attempts to carry this heavy-handed vehicle all by herself, but it's an impossible task. Writer-director Deborah Kampmeier has no sense of character development, and her timing and details seem askew (at one point, Elvis appears on an old TV set, but obsessed fan Dakota barely seems to take notice). The film garnered a bit of film-festival backlash after news of a rape scene involving Fanning was leaked to the press, but that sequence isn't nearly as disturbing as an earlier one where Grammie Piper Laurie stares strangely at the youngster standing up in the bathtub (is Kampmeier trying to say this girl isn't safe around anybody?). The locations are well-captured, and there are nice supporting performances from Afemo Omilami as a black horse trainer who introduces Fanning to the blues and Robin Wright Penn as the child's promiscuous aunt. Otherwise, these muddled results are entrenched in murky waters. *1/2 from ****