Comedy drama set in a small Alabama town at the height of the civil rights movement in 1960s America. Told almost in two separate parts the film focuses equally on local resident Peejoe (Lucas Black) who gets involved with a group of black students protesting about the town's segregated swimming pool and his crazy aunt (Melanie Griffith) who has murdered her husband and is now heading for Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. An impressive directorial debut from Griffith's real-life husband Antonio Banderas. The situations - both sexual and violent - in which the cast, including Rod Steiger and Meat Loaf, frequently find themselves make for an entertaining if somewhat bizarre journey.

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