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Vernon, Florida

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Vernon, Florida
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55min
Release:
1981
Director:
Errol Morris
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
George Harris, Albert Bitterling, Claude Register  ...more
Synopsis: For his second documentary feature, Errol Morris originally set out to chronicle Vernon, FL, because it had the highest rate of a particular sort of insurance fraud -- dismemberment performed for profit -- than any other place in the country. Nothing of that original idea survives in the film itself. Instead, Morris seems perfectly content letting the camera roll in front of the other eccentrics he found there, using his trademark approach of simply letting his subjects do the talking themselves. ... Full Synopsis
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Dan Friedman, AMG Review
Vernon, Florida is one of the rare documentaries that gets funnier every time it's seen. Errol Morris simply invades a small town in the Florida Panhandle, turns on his camera, and lets things go from there. To those uninitiated in the ways of Morris, the first reaction upon viewing the film is that it all has to be staged. There is simply no way that any of the people who appear in the film can be ... Full Review
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