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Jan 6, 2023 · Nichols started filming in late summer of 2011, traveling across southeast Arkansas; film locations included Dumas, De Witt, Lake Village, Crocketts Bluff, and Stuttgart. The island in the film was located outside the city of Eudora.
Oct 14, 2016 · Many of the original shooting locations are still standing, including Garry’s Whopper Burger (now called Garry’s Sling Blade Drive-In to cash in on its cinema fame) at 619 Cox St., which...
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The film premiered locally in Minneapolis at the Walker Art Center on October 12, 2011, completely re-cut and retitled as Thin Ice. Following the further festival run, the film was released theatrically in February 2012.
Thin Ice: Directed by Jill Sprecher. With Greg Kinnear, John Paul Gamoke, David Harbour, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes. A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
- The Old Mill North Little Rock, Arkansasseen In: “Gone with The Wind”
- I-30 Speedwayalexander, Arkansasseen In: “White Lightning”
- Downtown Camdencamden, Arkansasseen In: “Boxcar Bertha”
- Piggly Wiggly Grocery Storedumas, Arkansasseen In: “Mud”
- Garry’s Sling Blade Drive-Inbenton, Arkansasseen In: “Sling Blade”
Though it made one of the most memorable Arkansas location appearances ever in a major Hollywood film, a brief glimpse during the opening credits of the 1939 Civil War classic “Gone With the Wind,” North Little Rock’s Old Mill turns out to not be an actual mill at all. Though it looks the part, with multiple floors, a mill wheel that once turned, a...
Directed by John Sargent, the movie “White Lightning” stars up-and-coming Hollywood leading man Burt Reynolds (still years from superstardom in flicks like “Smokey and the Bandit”) as Arkansas moonshine runner and stock car racer Gator McKlusky. Gator is an Arkansas prison inmate who cuts a deal with the feds to gain his release. He then infiltrate...
In 1972, following up on the cult success of “Bloody Mama,” which he’d filmed in Arkansas, schlock director and producer returned to Arkansas to shoot another Depression-Era film, “Boxcar Bertha.” Loosely based on real-life train robbers Boxcar Bertha Thompson and “Big” Bill Shelly, who become wanted fugitives after a gambler was murdered, the film...
Screenwriter, director and Little Rock native Jeff Nichols has been slowly making a name for himself as one of the best young directors working in Hollywood today, and the film that really helped him arrive was 2013’s “Mud,” starring megastar Matthew McConaughey as a fugitive who seeks the help of two boys in Southeast Arkansas. Nichols fought hard...
Made on a shoestring budget by the then largely-unknown writer, actor, director and Malvern-native Billy Bob Thornton, the simple, powerful story of friendship and sacrifice seen in 1996’s “Sling Blade” went on to win the hearts of millions of moviegoers, a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Thornton, and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay i...
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Thin Ice: Directed by Jill Sprecher. With Greg Kinnear, John Paul Gamoke, David Harbour, Jennifer Edwards-Hughes. A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
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The motion picture industry first discovered that Arkansas is an ideal place to find filming locations in small towns and big cities plus rural countrysides in 1926 with Universal's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and it's been a popular shooting location ever since.
