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This black comedy, set in the 1950s, is director Jonathan Demme's second feature. The screenplay, which is based on a story by Frances Doel, finds raw delight in the humorous possibilities inherent in vast horizons, crime sprees, and rock & roll, making for an unusually good-natured crime comedy that centers around depression-era child Melba Stokes (Cloris Leachman) and her journey from California to Arkansas to reclaim the family farm. Melba originally hits the road with her mother, Sheba (Ann Sothern), and daughter, Cheryl (Linda Purl), but soon gathers a motley band of male stragglers...
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