Review of Junebug (2005) by Stuart S — 15 Apr 2008

I'm a little on the line about this one...the movie starts off a little awkwardly and the involvement of a key player in the movie was seriously diminished (Alesandro Nivola's character) though granted it was part of the point as his recently married wife in many respects does not know her husband.

Though once the movie gets going, I was really taken by Amy Adams acting and quite amused by the whole rural NC household w/ @sshole for a younger twenty something son living w/ his parents, waiting for his gf (played by Amy Adams, who also lives in the home) to have a baby.

This is definitely a quirky indie flick, that does some interesting things with the camera as it drifts from the action occasionally or captures "still life portraits" of the environment, you're left guessing a little about what is really going through the characters' heads sometimes in terms of accepting an outsider, of how the outsider accepts a new family she's married into and ultimately how the characters adapt and grow to new family dynamics.

Despite missing something in the way the story was told I thought, not to mention the soundtrack was lackluster, strong performances by Amy Adams and Embeth Davidtz as well as how the film got more cohesive as it went along make if a fairly decent film.