In what critics are calling his best work as writer/director since Sling Blade, Academy Award winner BILLY BOB THORNTON* stars along with Oscar winner ROBERT DUVAL**, two-time Oscar?-nominee JOHN HURT*** and Golden Globe winner KEVIN BACON, in this story of fathers and sons, wars and peace, and the turbulent time that changed America forever. It's 1969 in a small Alabama town, and the death of a quirky clan's long estranged wife and mother bring together two very different families for the funeral. But do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart or expose truths that could lead to the most unexpected collisions of all? ROBERT PATRICK (Walk The Line), RAY STEVENSON ("Dexter"), KATHERINE LaNASA ("Deception") and FRANCES O'CONNOR (The Hunter) co-star in the acclaimed comedy/drama where "the performances are first-rate" (NY Daily News).
1980, Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Elephant Man