Jayne Mansfield's Car (DVD, 2012) Region 4.

A bittersweet meditation on the aftermath

of war, "Jayne Mansfield's Car" looks at

two families, one Southern & 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.

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