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1. • • Based on a famous bit of folklore about a hopeful homecoming and a signal on a roadside oak, The Yellow Handkerchief centers on two teenagers on a road trip with an ex-con, hoping to help him reconnect with an old love.
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   Is the Yellow Handkerchief based on a true story?

   • The film “The Yellow Handkerchief” is loosely based on a column by Pete Hamill that appeared in The Post in October 1971. “I did a series of fictional columns called ‘The Eight Million’ and I heard a ver sion of this story at the Lion’s Head,” Hamill recalls, referring to a famous writers’ bar in Green wich Village.

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   What is the Yellow Handkerchief about?

   • More than anything, “The Yellow Handkerchief” is about how people read or misread each other’s signals. At various points Brett and May profess to be able to see each other’s histories in their faces. But if they trust their intuitions enough to connect, the everyday misunderstandings that arise threaten to shatter that trust.

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   Is the Yellow Handkerchief a good movie?

   • Demonstrating how much it likes its characters, the movie makes a mad dash toward a happy ending. Even if you can’t follow it over the rainbow, part of you wants to believe in the pot of gold on the other side. “The Yellow Handkerchief” is rated PG-13. (Parents strongly cautioned.) It has sexual content, mild violence and some strong language.

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   Who are Gordy and Martine in the Yellow Handkerchief?

   • In “The Yellow Handkerchief” Brett, newly released from prison, encounters two volatile, insecure teenagers, Gordy (Eddie Redmayne) and Martine (Kristen Stewart), who have themselves just met for the first time, at a convenience store.

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   Is the Yellow Handkerchief a PG-13 movie?

   • Rated: PG-13 for sexual content, some violence, language and thematic elements. You'd call The Yellow Handkerchief 's story — of teenagers helping an ex-con reconnect with the girl he left behind — a wispy little road-trip romance if it hadn't proved so damn sturdy through the years.

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   Who plays Brett in the Yellow Handkerchief?

   • In “The Yellow Handkerchief,” the gifted William Hurt, who specializes in playing high-strung, upscale neurotics, brings his formidable skills to the character of Brett, an itinerant oil rigger with a criminal record who, as the story begins, is released from a Louisiana prison after serving six years for manslaughter.

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3. nypost.com › 2010/02/26 › the-post-column-thatThe Post column that sparked ‘The Yellow Handkerchief’

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   Feb 26, 2010 · The film “The Yellow Handkerchief” is loosely based on a column by Pete Hamill that appeared in The Post in October 1971. “I did a series of fictional columns called...

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   Mar 1, 2010 · Based on a famous bit of folklore about a hopeful homecoming and a signal on a roadside oak, The Yellow Handkerchief centers on two teenagers on a road trip with an ex-con, hoping to help him...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2010/02/26 › moviesWilliam Hurt, Kristen Stewart and Eddie Redmayne on the Road ...

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   Feb 26, 2010 · In “The Yellow Handkerchief” Brett, newly released from prison, encounters two volatile, insecure teenagers, Gordy (Eddie Redmayne) and Martine (Kristen Stewart), who have themselves just met...

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   • Director: Udayan Prasad

7. variety.com › the-yellow-handkerchief-1200548738The Yellow Handkerchief - Variety

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   Jan 24, 2008 · Actually, what sounds like just another weepy Reader’s Digest story (no surprise: the magazine actually reprinted Hamill’s article in 1972) takes on real gravitas in Prasad’s hands, fleshed out...

8. www.latimes.com › entertainment › la-et-handkerchiefReview: ‘The Yellow Handkerchief’ - Los Angeles Times

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   Dec 17, 2008 · Pete Hamill’s Reader’s Digest story “The Yellow Handkerchief” inspired Yôji Yamada’s appealing 1977 film of the same name, and now it has become the basis for a new movie, also of the same...

9. nypost.com › 26 › hamill-on-the-yellow-handkerchiefHamill on ‘The Yellow Handkerchief’ - New York Post

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   Feb 26, 2010 · The most famous version of the story — which folklorists say existed orally as early as the 1950s and first appeared in print in a 1959 book about prison reform — was the song “Tie a Yellow ...

10. www.thecrimson.com › flashbacks-film-first-storyThe Yellow Handkerchief | Arts | The Harvard Crimson

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    Mar 23, 2010 · In “The Yellow Handkerchief,” a chance encounter unites three unlikely people on a road trip that promises to change their lives forever. As they journey through the South, Brett Hanson’s...