Sunshine State (film)
- Alex Lewis: Terrell Wilkins
- Alan King: Murray Silver
- Cullen Douglas: Jefferson cash
- Clifton James: Buster Bidwell
- Eliot Asinof: Silent Sam
- James McDaniel: Reggie Perry
- Edie Falco: Marly Temple
- Amanda Wing: Krissy
- Timothy Hutton: Jack Meadows
- Perry Lang: Greg
- Miguel Ferrer: Lester
- Gordon Clapp: Earl Pinkney
- Kyle Meenan: Dick Yordan
- Mary Steenburgen: Francine Pinkney
- Mary Alice: Eunice Stokes
- Ralph Waite: Furman Temple
- Richard Edson: Steve Tregaskis
Land of Sunshine - Sunshine State ( Sunshine State ) is an American film drama directed by John Sayles from the year 2002.
Action
In the small town Delrona Beach every year there is a festival that will be remembered by the once active in the region pirates. One of the floats is lit, which fact the African-American boy Terrell Wilkins is accused. He will be handed over to the care of Eunice Stokes.
Stokes is visited by her daughter Desiree, who works as an actress. Desiree, who became pregnant in high school and then moved away, is accompanied by her husband Reggie Perry. She meets her former friend from school.
Marly Temple into the city a motel. She wants to sell the property to an investor group, but her father - the owner - not one agrees. Temple enters into a love affair with the landscape architect Jack Meadows.
Reviews
Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone magazine on 4 July 2002, you can feel as a spectator the "fire history ", her humor and her humanity. The director show based on the fate of an African American and a white family, such as race and politics would separate the inhabitants of Florida.
The lexicon of international film wrote, the film is an " ensemble film about external heat and the cold inside and the difficulty of the " "to live" the American dream. He was " allusive " and " embossed subtle humor and poetry " of.
Awards
Edie Falco won in 2002, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award and 2003 Golden Satellite Award; She was nominated in 2003 for the Online Film Critics Society Award. Angela Bassett won in 2003, the Black Reel Award and an Image Award. John Sayles won the 2003 Florida Film Critics Circle Award.
Background
The film was shot in various locations in Florida - turned - including in Jacksonville. His cost of production was estimated at 5.6 million U.S. dollars. The film had its world premiere on 19 May 2002 to the International Film Festival in Cannes. He played in the cinemas of the United States an approximately 3.06 million U.S. dollars.