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It's hard to stand by your man... when your sister's sitting in his lap.
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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Billy Bob ThorntonClaude Montgomery
Laura DernRuby Montgomery
Brenda BlethynJulia Montgomery
Andy GriffithO.T. Montgomery
Diane LaddJewel
Kelly PrestonRose
Jim VarneyHazel Montgomery
John PrineAlvin Montgomery
Walton GogginsTommy Christian
Tuesday KnightBilly Montgomery
Sandra SeacatElbe MontgomeryExplore the crew
- Writer
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Director
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Editor
- Sally Menke
- Producer
- Larry Meistrich
- Producer
- Geyer Kosinski
- Director of Photography
- Barry Markowitz
- Producer
- Robert Salerno
- Original Music Composer
- Marty Stuart