Movie2004 · Released · 107 min
A filmmaker and longtime Boston-area resident, returns to his native North Carolina for a “periodic transfusion of Southernness" and goes down a rabbit hole exploring his great-grandfather's trade in growing a variety of tobacco called bright-leaf tobacco and discovering that he may have been cheated out of his fortune by a rival.
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Ross McElwee
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Brian Baucom
Susan Bennett
Ed Bivens
R. Bullock
Jack Clayton
Mary Clayton
Marian Fitz-Simmons
Alan Gurganus
Steve Herman
Robbie Lane Jackson
Elizabeth King
Mack Lackey
Paula Larke
Jim Lewis
James MacDougal
Emily Madison
Matti McClain
Adrian McElwee
John McElwee
Tom McElwee
Jamie McPhail
Howard McPherson
Kathleen Money
Patricia Neal
Jamie Newnam
Vlada Petrić
Jack Rhodes
William E. Smith
Sherwood Stewart
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