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Director: Ross McElwee
Genre: Biography, Social History, History, Culture & Society
Release Date: August 25, 2004 (USA
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Film diarist Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) offers another personal examination of Southern history and life with Bright Leaves, a documentary tracing his own connection to North Carolina and its tobacco industry. McElwee is drawn to the subject after meeting his second cousin John, a film memorabilia collector, who shows McElwee an old Warner Bros... Full Summary >>

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With Bright Leaves, filmmaker Ross McElwee offers an involved personal history that also functions as a sly commentary on the tobacco industry and the impact it's had on America and the world. McElwee's diary style of filmmaking has been extremely in ... Continue >>

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