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<\/a><\/p>\nDirector: \u00a0<\/strong>Lee Daniels Charlotte, played by Nicole Kidman, is in love with the dangerous and crazed Hillary van Wetter who is jailed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.\u00a0 She recruits the help of a journalist Ward Jansen and his associate Yardley, a black Englisman, to clear Hillary’s name.\u00a0 Ward’s younger brother Jack also hangs around the scene and is played by Zac Effron in a role that sheds his nice guy image from High School Musical<\/em>.<\/p>\n There’s probably a better name to describe this sort of film.\u00a0 I believe its a genre called Southern Gothic.\u00a0 Think True Blood<\/em> or Wild Things<\/em> and you’re on the right track.\u00a0 This is a film set in the Dirty South where everyone is constantly sweaty, sexed up and foul mouthed.\u00a0 The film is a power struggle in which a series of flawed and selfish characters spar against one another (sometimes verballly, sometimes not) to get whats coming to them.<\/p>\n I have a lot of a fun with these types of films.\u00a0 Their roots in exploitation cinema means that you typically spend most of the film teetering between titillation and revulsion.<\/p>\n
\nWriters: \u00a0<\/strong>Peter Dexter, Lee Daniels
\nCast: \u00a0<\/strong>Nicole Kidman, Zac Effron, David Oyelowo, Matthew McConaughey<\/p>\nT<\/span>here’s a weird social phenomenona that I’m sure most people are aware of pertaining to hardened prisoners and how they attract the love and penmanship of thrill-seeking women.\u00a0 The Paperboy<\/em>, a sweaty and lurid exploitation film set in the American South during the Sixties centres around Charlotte Bless, who is just that sort.<\/p>\n