What's love got to do with it
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Oct 20187/10
***A Southern belle has second thoughts about getting married after meeting a carnie hunk*** Freshly graduated from college, a sultry Alabama debutante (Sherilyn Fenn) is sidetracked from her semi-arranged marriage in a couple of weeks by a hunky carnival worker (Richard Tyson). Louise Fletcher plays the unbending matriarch, Kristy McNichol a street-smart trucker and Burl Ives a seasoned sheriff. This is a drama/romance that would fit into Southern Gothic. Unlike most of these films, “Two Moon Junction” (1988) curiously throws in softcore nudity and sex. If that turns you off, I suggest staying away. I think it’s the main reason people look down on this flick and write it off as “sexploitation trash” and “a romance novel put to film.” I wouldn’t know because I’ve never read one, although my wife encouraged me to read one once (because it had fantasy elements) and I couldn’t get past the first chapter; too much kissy-kissy. If you can get past that or roll with it, this is an entertaining Southern Gothic with a worthy script and the social mindfood thereof (I’m not getting where people say it comes off as if it were written by a 10 year-old, not at all). There’s a hypnotic quality t
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Cast
- Sherilyn FennApril Delongpre
- Richard TysonPerry Tyson
- Louise FletcherBelle Delongpre
- Burl IvesSheriff Earl Hawkins
- Kristy McNicholPatti Jean
- Don GallowaySenator Delongpre
- Dabbs GreerKyle
- Martin HewittChad Douglas Fairchild
- Juanita MooreDelilah
- Millie PerkinsMrs. Delongpre
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- Zalman KingDirector
- Zalman KingScreenplay
- Mark PlummerDirector of Photography
- Jonathan EliasOriginal Music Composer
- Marc GrossmanEditor
- Donald P. BorchersProducer
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