As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid growing up to be a cotton picker all my life, begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
It follows Manolo, a gentle, naive fairground worker. When their father gets sick, Manolo reunites with his older brother Georges, a con man who abandoned the family twenty years ago. Desperate to prove he is not a failure, Georges schemes to turn the phy
RÉALISATEURS : Nawell Madani et Ludovic Colbeau-Justin IDÉE ORIGINALE : Pablo Mehler, Nawell Madani SCÉNARIO : Nawell Madani D’APRÈS UN SCÉNARIO ORIGINAL DE : Pablo Mehler ADAPTATION ET DIALOGUES : Nawell Madani et Franck Philippon AVEC LA COLLABORATION D
