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Joel
14Mar12
The kind of documentary you long for, simply beautiful ordinary life. Full of everything that is beautiful about the simplicity and wisdom and folly of small town folk. Perhaps it's weakness is in it's lack of real arc from beginning to end it still was quite a delight and made me laugh quite a bit.
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WhatsUpWill
18Jan12
A very odd, if sometimes beautiful, documentary about a few of Vernon, Florida's quirkiest citizens. I can't help but feel that this film majorly influenced Christopher Guest's film making style. Some of the interviews are too good to be true!
Nathan Jongewaard
22Jul10
I love Errol Morris, but I disagree with C. Smith that he would go on to make better films. Vernon, Florida and Gates of Heaven, are, to me, insurmountable, towering masterpieces. I think that Morris' earlier work is often misunderstood, even dismissed, by some who feel that he takes a mocking stance toward his subjects. I find, instead, that he treats them with the utmost reverence and awe. Unmissable.
Christopher Smith
21May10
Earlier effort from master documentarian Errol Morris finds his trademark offbeat style firmly in place in this engaging, funny, and sometimes disturbing portrait of eccentric small town America. Sharp and influential, but Morris would go on to make even better films.