About the Film
A big hit at the past Sundance Film Festival, where Amy Adams won the Special Jury Prize for her performance, Junebug centers on Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz) an art dealer from Chicago. While traveling to North Carolina to pursue a local artist for her gallery, she and her husband George (Alessandro Nivola) extend the trip to include an introduction to his family – a prickly mother, a taciturn father, an angry younger brother, and a very pregnant and innocently garrulous sister-in-law. The film is an engaging comedy of manners about culture clash between the “sophisticated” big-city professional and her new country relatives.
