Paperboy Movie
Set in 1969, 'The Paperboy' stars Matthew McConaughey as Ward Jansen, a reporter for the Miami Times, who is visiting his hometown of Lately, Fla., because he believes a man on Death Row has been wrongly convicted for the murder of a sheriff. That man is Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack), a human snake with a vicious streak, who we suspect should be executed on general principle. Ward recruits his kid brother Jack (Zac Efron) as an assistant to himself and his fellow reporter Yardley Acheman (David Oyelowo), a black man with a British accent that has the locals looking at him sideways.
The movie, directed by Lee Daniels and adapted from a novel by Pete Dexter, is — for starters — a domestic melodrama, a Southern Gothic, a. The only thing The Paperboy does manage is a general sense of unpleasantness. Decades ago, there was a subgenre of drive-in and exploitation movies about a frightening class of horrible people who lived in swamps. The Paperboy could have been one of these, except.
They meet up with Charlotte Bless (Nicole Kidman), a trashy blond who seems to fashion her appearance after close study of the Trashy Lingerie catalog. She could have been the model for the dames on the paperback covers of Mickey Spillane steamers in the 1950s. Charlotte has never met Hillary Van Wetter, but they've been corresponding and are engaged to be married.
I know a lot of women fall in love with men on Death Row, but Charlotte is a case study. She's in love with the very hopelessness of her romance, its masochistic idealism. In a scene that defies description, Ward and Jack take her for her first in-person meeting with Hillary, and so much does their romance reside in their fevered minds that they achieve simultaneous orgasm while 10 feet apart.
A scene like that takes courage, but Nicole Kidman isn't finished. Charlotte is a merciless flirt around poor Jack, a champion swimmer who has been booted out of college and comes home to deliver papers for the local newspaper owned by his father (Scott Glenn). His lean and muscular body seems to contain a brain that is not in equally great shape. Charlotte reclines seductively on the beach next to him, with various bits peeking out in friendliness from beneath her bikini. To cool off, Jack plunges into the ocean and is attacked by jellyfish.
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Rating: RAdvent rising mods.
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The Paperboy Plot: What's the story?
An erotic thriller set in 1969, Paperboy tells the story of a young man who returns to his small Florida hometown to help his reporter brother uncover the truth about a man on death row, who might have been wrongly convicted. In the process, he falls for the convict’s lover. Conflict, danger, deceit, seduction and betrayal ensue.
verbatim plot from hollywoodreporter.com
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The Paperboy Cast: Who stars in it?
- Matthew McConaughey
The Gentlemen, Mud - Zac Efron
Scoob!, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax - Nicole Kidman
Bombshell, The Goldfinch - John Cusack
Distorted, Never Grow Old - Scott Glenn .. W.W. James
Greenland, Secretariat
Film Details & Notes: What do we know about The Paperboy?
- Based on the 1995 novel 'The Paperboy' by Pete Dexter.
Crew and Production Credits: Who's making The Paperboy?
A look at the The Paperboy behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Lee Daniels last directed Lee Daniels' The Butler and Precious. The film's writer Lee Daniels last wrote Lee Daniels' The Butler and Anna in the Tropics.
Screenwriter
Lee Daniels
Producers
Pedro AlmodovarLee Daniels
Hilary Shor
Production Companies
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Production Timeline: When did the The Paperboy come together?
On or about August 4, 2011 • The film was in Production status.
On or about June 27, 2011 • The film was in Pre-Production status.
On or about February 20, 2011 • The film was in Development status.
Lee Daniels made offers to actors in mid-February 2011; project 'fast coming together'
On or about December 31, 1969 • The film was in Completed status.
The Paperboy Release Date: When was it released?
The Paperboy was released in 2012 on Friday, October 5, 2012 in limited movie theaters. There were 17 other movies released on the same date, including Taken 2, Frankenweenie and Butter.- United States
- October 5, 2012 Limited
- Canada
- October 5, 2012
When will the movie be on Blu-ray & DVD?
Tuesday, January 22, 2013Released; Now Available Buy Rent Now
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