I hope screenwriter Angus MacLachlan and director Phil Morrison make more movies together. WOW! ... yeah... wow... just wow... (cough).

Heartfelt, charming, and deeply moving. Amy Adams is superb.

Don't miss it!

Not perfect, but excellent. A complex ensemble piece built around great acting and writing, each character being given the chance to show who they are through finely observed action (or inaction) and dialogue. Top-notch American indie filmmaking.

I loved this movie. It challenges the viewer to see the characters from the inside out, and it takes compassion and empathy to understand and respect them and their choices. Some viewers will get it, some won't. I suspect it will be those who have a hard time walking in someone else's shoes that won't. The performances were right on. Although this takes place in the South, it is really about people with small vision forced to expand their minds, and the pain that causes.… Expand

I thought it was great film, very true when it dealt with family problems, I saw a little of my own family in there.

Excellent film. Each character has many dimensions. There have been other films where a spouse meets their partners parents who are from a "different world." These are generally pretty cheesy. Junebug is sensitive and gentle with all its characters. The lightness of the film takes a heavy turn at the end.

I was profoundly and personally touched by this film; as my family talked about it over dinner, the ideas and feelings in the movie I thought only I could relate to started to tumble out of them. It's a funny, smart, complicated, artful, heartfelt gem.... Phil Morrison and everyone involved have built a tiny prism that lets you look at your life from a few new sparkling little angles.

Don't believe the people who say there's no story to this film. This is about how surprised we can be by the hidden baggageand/or histories that the people we love carry around with them. The fact that a classy New-York gallery owner can be completely clueless about the extended family of her husband is just the beginning - I challenge anyone to sit through the scene where her husband sings an old-fashioned hymn at a church potluck and not be as amazed as his she is. We are all of us strange and unknowable and many-faced, and people still love us. What a miracle. And the movie reminds us of that. Amy Adams is fantastic and gets most of the attention, but watch the people in smaller roles, too - the mother-in-law, played by the great character actress Celia Weston, deserved an Oscar nomination, too. And Scott Wilson as the dad is a model of self-negation. Great performances all around. If we were more comfortable with quiet, reflective movies, this would have made the Oscar list for Best Picture.… Expand

the entire cast worked so well together,it seemed like any disfunctional family. Ashley was so full of energy, she keeps your attention and you wish you could be that positive,she lights up the room.

One of the best fiilms in a long time-superb acting, cinematography outstanding.

This a fine movie that respects all of its characters, when it could have easily turned all of them into cliches.

This movie understands the complexity of family ties--how we are all products of our upbringing, and that we have unbreakable ties to our parents and siblings, no matter how much time and space separates us from one another. [***SPOILERS***] When George returns to his North Carolina roots accompanied by his new wife, we see him utterly relax (note how often he sleeps in the movie, one time even drooling on the living room couch) and, during key moments, fit right back into his initial mileu. Yet Madeleine's presence reveals the complex interactions and ferocious tensions that permeate this family. When Ashley loses her baby, we see the film maker's dominant metaphor: When families grow, sometimes the process is painful, awkward, and even aborted. But the families endure and the individuals go off in their own directions while never quite losing touch with their origins. These people simultaneously know each other better than anyone else while still remaining isolated and incomprehensible to each other. The mother cries alone in her bedroom, the father isolates himself in his workshop, and the younger brother as built a protective shell of sullen silence and hostility. At the heart of the family is the wide-eyed, innocent daughter-ink-law, Ashley. Her uninhibited generosity of spirit shines hopefully in the face of the dark emotional complexities of this family (symbolized by the tangled woods that surround this middle-class ranch house). By the end of the film, we come to see the huge distances--even outright dislike--that divide the individual family members, but when Madeleine finds her father-in-law's missing screw driver, we see that each family member has a role to play in establishing order and form in a family. Each addition to the family changes the shape and definition of the unit. These family members love and hate, share and withhold, praise and criticize; they build up and destroy. But their ties are unbreakable. As George drives away, we can understand why he says he is glad to be getting out of there, but we can feel pretty sure that inevitably he will be returning to these people with whom he is more intimately connected than anyone else he nows. This is an excellent and perceptive movie that never patronizes the Southern family it spotlights, nor mocks the city-dweller Madeleine who reconfigures the family nucleus into which she marries.… Expand

spot-on, with terrific casting and a wonderful script.

Perfect casting. Funny and bittersweet. As an added wonder, the portrait of a genuinely primitive artist.

The best thing about Junebug are the dead-on renditions of a particular set of hideously awkward moments. Believe me, I've lived through the situation in which a brunette city girl with an international background meets her small-town Southern inlaws, and they nailed it. The critics who didn't see this movie's perfect emotional pitch are just clueless. I especially liked Johnny: he is in such obvious pain, ducking every interaction, wanting to impress his wife and only succeeding in messing up her baby shower. Only a couple of missteps kept me from giving this a 10. First, while Embeth Davidtz did a brilliant job of acting a thankless part, she isn't devastatingly pretty enough, especially by Southern standards, especially compared with Amy Adams, to justify the family's reaction to her. Second, although I loved the still shots of empty rooms, which to me were affectionate and very telling, I did get a whiff of the patronizing in the way the small town is portrayed: just how extraordinary is it that workers in a warehouse should be obsessed with football to the point of talking about it all day? I found that much less grotesque than I think the filmmakers wanted me to.… Expand

Great acting, especially from Amy Adams.

To anyone who reads the reviews for this movie: go and yell at all the managers of the local 18-screen movie theaters who can't make the space for movies like Junebug. I live in San Diego and had to drive about 40 minutes just to go see this movie. It is just upsetting that Transporter 2 can play on three screens but they won't make room for movies like junebug. I remember feeling the same thing when I saw the Station Agent. Anyways, this movie was great. It's the kind of movie that most people would really enjoy if they just sat down and watched it. I know I've read plenty about how brilliant Amy Adams's performance is in this movie, but I have to say that her presence in the movie is worth the trip alone. This film is full of enough comedy as well as a great presentation of the fact that (as trite as it may sounds) families do not always, if ever, get along. The film deals with love, loss, anger, and forgiveness. This really is a great movie.… Expand

while everyone will complement Amy Adams (and she's completely deserving of the praise she gets), this ensamble cast was amazing. Have you ever heard someone describe jazz as being beautiful for the notes that are NOT played? I never understood that line until watching Junebug. This movie is great for the lines that are NOT said - meaning you have to gague the character's true feelings towards each other through limited interaction, and many times actions rather than words. I can understand that not everyone will enjoy this movie, but I was engrossed throughout, and will watch it many more times.… Expand