Junebug (2005)

A little sophistication is a dangerous thing. An entire family of middle-class North Carolinians is nearly undone by the big-city insouciance of one worldly and self-empowered Chicago woman who stops by for a visit in Junebug (2005). The slick lady from up north is a dealer in “outsider” art who has recently wed the number-one son of the naïve folk from down South. A modicum of culture clash is to be expected when the go-getter from the city of big shoulders brushes against the constraints of her in-laws’ mannered gentility. Unexpected twists come when the hosts drop their homespun hospitality and “get real” like only families that have kept lifelong resentments covered and simmering can.