About this title: For his second documentary feature, Errol Morris originally set out to chronicle Vernon, FL, because it had the highest rate of a particular sort of insurance fraud -- dismemberment performed for profit -- than any other place in the country. Nothing of that original idea survives in the film itself. Instead, Morris seems perfectly content letting the camera roll in front of the other eccentrics he found there, using his trademark approach of simply letting his subjects do the talking themselves. Many of them exhibit unusually close relationships to animals, including a turtle keeper, a worm ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Date: 07/26/2005
UPC:027616902337
Description: Albert Bitterling, Roscoe Collins, George Harris, Joe Payne, Howard Pettis. New. 1981 Run time: 55. Factory Sealed-Fast Shipping Happy to serve you. read more
Description: New. 027616902337 DVD-Brand new. Original factory shrinkwrap. 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Great customer service and a no problem, EZ return policy. Real people, real service, since 1981. read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Date: 07/26/2005
UPC:027616902337
Description: Albert Bitterling, Roscoe Collins, George Harris, Joe Payne, Howard Pettis. New. 1981 Run time: 55. Brand new in factory shrinkwrap. read more
Format: DVD
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
UPC:027616902337
Description: New. 027616902337 Fire up the pickup and head down to this backwater town with "one of America s strangest and most brilliant documentary filmmakers" (Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times)! Oscar®-winning* director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) presents a pastiche of fascinating interviews with the weird and wonderful people of Vernon Florida in this "amusing portrait" (Variety) of oddball Americana! For the inhabitants of this Southern town there s no place like home for the rest of us there s ... read more
Description: New. Fire up the pickup and head down to this backwater town with "one of America s strangest and most brilliant documentary filmmakers" (Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times)! Oscar®-winning* director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) presents a pastiche of fascinating interviews with the weird and wonderful people of Vernon Florida in this "amusing portrait" (Variety) of oddball Americana! For the inhabitants of this Southern town there s no place like home for the rest of us there s no place like ... read more
Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
DVD region: 1
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Date: 07/26/2005
UPC:027616902337
Description: Claude Register, Albert Bitterling, Howard Pettis, Roscoe Collins, Henry Shipes. New. 1981 Run time: 56. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
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