Released:
2001-10-26

Overview:
Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.

Director:
Billy Bob Thornton

Runtime:
1h 41min

Genre:
Drama, Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Billy Bob Thornton
  as
  Claude Montgomery
• 
  Laura Dern
  as
  Ruby Montgomery
• 
  Brenda Blethyn
  as
  Julia Montgomery
• 
  Andy Griffith
  as
  O.T. Montgomery
• 
  Diane Ladd
  as
  Jewel