Junebug (2005)

You think Junebug, with its story of a proper Englishwomen going to meet her new in-laws at their home in North Carolina, is going to be one of those ‘gawk at the southerners/ ain’t my family crazy pictures’, and while those elements are present in the film, its really something much more. It’s a story about the importance of family relationships, and the good and bad there in. Excellent performances and scripting all around allow for the gradual revel of at first 2D characters, into rounded whole individuals. Amy Adams is the standout of the picture in a role that earned her an Oscar nomination, as the pregnant, not to brite, but throughly charming sister-in-law. A moving picture about love and family.