Movie Details
On DVD & Blu-ray:June 21st, 2005
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Original Language:English
Production Companies:Channel 4 Television, GBH, Homemade Movies
Bright Leaves on the Web:Official Website
Bright Leaves
Audience Score
DirectorRoss McElwee
1 hr 48 minDocumentary
Plot
Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, while comparing his filmmaking to commercial cinema, represented by Bright Leaf, a melodrama directed by Michael Curtiz in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, apparently based on the life of his great-grandfather.
