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Movie Review- Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania
The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania. Odd title, great film. Hollywood producer
David Hunt and his wife Patricia
Heaton,
famed for her work as Debra
Barone on "Everybody
Loves Raymond," wanted
to make a film
that celebrated the genuine
beauty in people.
The story is set in Carmichaels,
Pennsylvania,
a coalmining town whose whole
year is focused
on its Coal Queen pageant.
The characters
Hunt and Heaton bring to the
screen definitely
accomplish the mission of the
film- they
are endearing from the start,
and their stories
weave a sense of honesty and
authenticity
through the film. At the premier
in downtown
Manhattan, I sat next to Sarah
Rush, 1972
Coal Queen and the film's main
character.
By the end of the film, she
felt like a dear
friend. She welcomed conversation
about my
own smalltown upbringing with
her signature
giggle. While this film would
by no means
fit the bill of weekend blockbuster,
I think
everyone can relate to the
beauty in this
project-especially smalltown
girls like me.
If "documentary"
usually turns
you off, give it a chance.
But , take it from Patricia. "It's really
our homage to small town America,"
Heaton
said. "It's funny, it's
charming, it's
heartwarming, it's heart wrenching.
It reminds
us of the people-the backbone
of this country-that
have made this country as great
as it is."
"AND it's highly entertaining."
Indeed, Patricia, it is.
Movie Review by Lorae French
Correspondent for ReachOUT.tv
 
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