Hope

TV Movie
1997
PG
1h 40m

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J.T. Walsh, Christine Lahti, Catherine O'Hara, Jena Malone, and Jeffrey D. Sams in Hope (1997)

During the early 1960s, Kate is faced with a dreary small-town existence, surrounded by her mother, who is a stroke victim, and her bigoted Uncle Ray, who owns a theatre. When a black minist... Read allDuring the early 1960s, Kate is faced with a dreary small-town existence, surrounded by her mother, who is a stroke victim, and her bigoted Uncle Ray, who owns a theatre. When a black minister dies in Uncle Ray's theater, Ray is charged with wrongful death.During the early 1960s, Kate is faced with a dreary small-town existence, surrounded by her mother, who is a stroke victim, and her bigoted Uncle Ray, who owns a theatre. When a black minister dies in Uncle Ray's theater, Ray is charged with wrongful death.

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total

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Goldie Hawn's directorial debut.

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Billy October: [discussing the exclusive books he orders from New York] Lady Chatterley's Lover and something by a guy named Miller. Got the F word on every page.
Lilly Kate Burns: That's the one I wanna read. I wanna learn more about the F word. Do you think about it much? The F word, I mean.
Billy October: Sort of.
Lilly Kate Burns: I think about it all the time. Mrs. Muriel says it's normal so I guess in that sense I'm very normal. How about you? You normal?
Billy October: Who wants to be normal? Normal is boring.

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I actually saw this movie being filmed and got to be an extra in quite a few scenes. The movie was shot in the little town of Anderson, Texas. The town pretty much looks like what you see in the movie, so the movie crews didn't have to do much to the town. A lot of the kids played together in the park down the street from the "Town Hall", which is actually the Grimes County Courthouse. We didn't realize then that we were playing tag and seeing how fast we could spin on the merry-go-round with real Hollywood actors, because they acted just like normal kids.

This movie deals mainly with the segregation issue in the south. It shows how small towns dealt with the issue in their own ways, instead of what you always see in movies about what happened in the big cities. Small towns weren't as open with the de-segregation issue as larger cities were. I convinced my seventh grade teacher to show this in our Texas History class and it had a great effect. (Hint to all the teachers out there... this is a really good movie to use as a teaching tool!) In my mind, this is a MUST SEE MOVIE!!!