JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR
Feature Film
Independent
SAG
 
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Start Date: June 22, 2011
Location: New Orleans, LA.
Budget: $10 Million
 
Cast:
Jim- Robert Duvall
Skip- Billy Bob Thornton
 
STORY LINE: Jim Caldwell, a wealthy Alabama rancher, has never forgiven his wife NAOMI for running off on him and their four kids twenty years ago and marrying a wealthy Londoner, Kingsley Bedford. However, with Naomi passing away from cancer and wanting to be buried in her native Alabama, an initially awkward meeting ensues between the Caldwells and the Bedfords who have come from London to small town Alabama for Naomi's funeral. However, with both families struggling--sometimes hilariously, sometimes tragically--with various issues of love, trust and the apparently insurmountable generation gap(s), they soon discover they have more in common than they think...
 
CHARACTERS
 
ALAN- 18 yrs old, CAUCASIAN--This straight-laced looking kid is Jimbo's son who comes off not too bright but is possibly just more naïve than anything. He is fascinated with the hippie lifestyle of his Uncle Carroll, who, despite being in his 40s, is living like a hippie surrounded by friends, a beautiful young girlfriend, and a whole lot of drugs. Alan does smoke some weed with his cousin Mickey (Carroll's son) and later does some LSD, which leaves him pale, sweaty and uncomfortable--and prompts him to put a little in his grandpa's iced tea...LEAD
 
MICKEY- 18 yrs old, CAUCASIAN--Nice looking with long hair, Mickey is Carroll's son. An easy going guy, Mickey lives with his dad in a sort of hippie commune. He seems like an aimless kid who has no interest in his dad's suggestion that he go to college and is apparently not concerned about the looming draft and the fact that he'd be deferred if he were in school. Mickey plays in a local band with Connell, and when Connell gets his draft notice Mickey makes an uncharacteristic decision...MUST PLAY BASS GUITAR AND SING...LEAD
 
VICKY- 40s, CAUCASIAN--Fairly attractive but with a pinched, arrogant look on her face, Vicky is Jimbo's wife and a proper Southern lady. She lives at the Caldwell mansion with her father-in-law, her brother-in-law Skip, her husband and her son Alan. Supportive of her volatile husband and not a big fan of her sister-in-law Donna, Vicky likes to drag her son to church on Sundays ("'Cause we love the lord") but later has no clue that his distraught behavior is due to his having taken LSD...10 lines, 5 scenes
 
CONNELL LAMBERT- 18, African American, with a busy Afro and psychedelic shirt a la Jimi Hendrix, Connell is the grandson of Dorothy Lambert, the longtime cook and housekeeper for the Caldwells. Connell occasionally helps out at the Caldwells' as well, but he's also in a band with his friend Mickey, where he is the lead singer and guitarist, decked out in full Jimi Hendrix regalia. Connell gets some bad news in the mail: his draft notice...6 lines, 4 scenes (12)
 
DOROTHY LAMBERT- 70 yrs old, AFRICAN AMERICAN - Tall, warm, and confident, Dorothy is the longtime cook/housekeeper for the Caldwell family. The grandmother of Connell, with whom she shares a good relationship, Dorothy is usually seen at the Caldwell mansion making great Southern meals and serving ice tea (and occasionally helping out with a downed family member)...6 speeches & 7 lines, 8 scenes
 
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