Overview
Genre
DramaRelease Date
TBA 2012Studio
Anchor Bay Films
Cast and Crew
Director
Billy Bob ThorntonProducer
Alexander Rodnyansky, Geyer KosinskiScreenwriter
Tom Epperson, Billy Bob ThorntonStarring
- Robert Duvall as Jim Caldwell
- John Hurt as Kingsley Bedford
- Kevin Bacon as Carroll Caldwell
- Robert Patrick as Jimbo Caldwell
- Ray Stevenson as Phillip Bedford
- Billy Bob Thornton as Skip Caldwell
- Shawnee Smith as Vicky Caldwell
- Frances O'Connor as Camilla Bedford
- Katherine LaNasa
- Tippi Hedren
- Marshall Allman
- John Patrick Amedori
Story
A bittersweet meditation on the aftermath of war, "Jayne Mansfield's Car" looks at two families, one Southern and one British, in Alabama in 1969. Brought together by the death of a woman who was married first to Jim Caldwell (Robert Duvall) and then to Kingsley Bedford (John Hurt), the families struggle with long-held resentments, jealousy, fear of growing old and, most poignantly, the tension between three generations of fathers and sons whose notions of manhood are shaped by their exposure to combat, its myths and realities.
