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Lost Southern Classic Stars Swayze, Thornton

Posted: Sep 27, 2009

Welcome to a new feature here at Gritz called “Lost Southern Classics,” in which we will examine an album, book or movie that may have flown slightly under the radar when it was released. With all the music and entertainment choices available these days, it’s somewhat refreshing to run across something from the past that I may have missed, especially when it is something good.

Our first “Lost Southern Classic” is a comedy film, available on DVD called Waking Up in Reno. The movie was released in 2002 and stars Billy Bob Thornton, Patrick Swayze, Charlize Theron and Natasha Richardson. Sadly, 2009 saw the passing of two of the four stars, Richardson and Swayze.

Lonnie Earl Dodd (Thornton) is a used car salesman in Arkansas, which, being Billy Bob’s home state, seems to wind up in a lot of his movies. Lonnie Earl is the tightest man since Jack Benny, and he and his wife Darlene (Richardson) are obviously at a crossroads in their relationship. Their children are grown, and Lonnie Earl is married to his job more than to Darlene.

Their best friends are Roy and Candy Kirkeindall, a young couple on a mission to have a baby. Together, the four friends head out for a vacation to Reno, Nevada in January because, as Lonnie Earl puts it, “Darlin’ you know I can’t afford them summer rates.”

Along the way, Candy forces them to break Lonnie Earl’s schedule when she discovers she is ovulating and she and Roy get it on in the back seat while a gathered crowd applauds them.

They also stop at the Big Texan in Amarillo, where Lonnie Earl succeeds in eating the 72 oz. steak and all the trimmings, albeit with a trip to the local ER as a chaser. I had to chuckle when I recalled Thornton and The Boxmasters stopping at that same restaurant earlier this year to give the steak a try. I guess life really does imitate art.

Candy discovers that she is pregnant, and the celebration is going well until Roy here’s from his doctor that he is unable to father a child. Theron shoots a look at Thornton when she realizes that her two night stand with him means that he is the father of her baby. Well, maybe. Of course, the discovery is met with fights, arguments and plenty of good old fashioned slapstick comedy.

Great scenes include Darlene’s “get even” with Lonnie Earl, stealing his credit cards and buying a beautiful new outfit to go out solo to see her hero Tony Orlando, who points her out in the audience and sings right to her, boosting her self confidence by light years; the four on the way to Reno singing “Hang On Sloopy” in the car; and Billy Bob’s Lonnie Earl getting the kiss off from a hotel hooker (Penélope Cruz).

Billy Bob and Swayze both used their regular accents, while Richardson and Theron adopted Southern accents. Now, that’s a pet peeve of mine. I want to hear real Southern accents, not the “Foghorn Leghorn” over the top thing. But the ladies pulled it off, even though both sounded at times like Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter. Not that that’s a bad thing at all.

Our four characters drink endless beers, smoke endless cigarettes, and remind me of so many of the people I grew up with. Some real Southern characters. It’s a good movie. Check it out and let me know what you thought.

Keep it Real. Keep it Southern.
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I own the DVD. I love it. Did you ever see Billy Bob's Daddy and Them?

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That is one of my FAVORITE movies!!!!I watched it late one night and woke up Jessy and MsReb laughing!!!!!

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