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54% Critic Match
Daddy and Them
“It's hard to stand by your man... when your sister's sitting in his lap.”
5.4 / 10• 2001• 1h 41m•R• English
DramaComedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Billy Bob Thornton
Claude Montgomery
Lead
Laura Dern
Ruby Montgomery
Brenda Blethyn
Julia Montgomery
Andy Griffith
O.T. Montgomery
Diane Ladd
Jewel
Kelly Preston
Rose
Jim Varney
Hazel Montgomery
John Prine
Alvin Montgomery
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Billy Bob Thornton's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Daddy and Them is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
