Hounddog
The movie is about Lewellen, Lewellen lives with her grandmother - Grannie. Not only her parents but also her grandmother can’t give her a stable home. She finds peaceful in music and Elvis Presley’s movements. Her father tries his best to give her a stable life. He even tries to date with a mysterious girlfriend named Ellen who promissed one night to rescue Lewellen from life. However, Ellen in fact is Lewellen’s aunt.
11 October 1953, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA
25 February 1997, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
13 December 1950, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
22 January 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
21 April 1988, Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA
31 October 1989, Winfield, Illinois, USA
October 31, 2008
Hounddog boasts a distinctive wood-and-emerald look and several crackerjack performances.
September 26, 2008
We're seeing Fanning in soaking wet white underwear playing in the river, gyrating like Elvis. That's worse that an exploitative rape scene. This is just the filmmakers deciding to depict salacious behavior.
September 26, 2008
If there's a Southern-gothic cliché (oh, those snakes!) that writer-director Deborah Kampmeier misses, I don't know it.
September 19, 2008
A handsomely produced but unintentionally risible film that mistakes high grotesquerie for high gothic.
September 19, 2008
The only lesson is that if you're a child of the south, you better get yourself adopted by Yankees.
October 18, 2008
Only Fanning's emotional honesty makes Hounddog watchable.
September 19, 2008
The latest wallow in regional cliche and stereotype.
September 25, 2008
A slow procession of degradation and suffering, Hounddog is like a tall glass of bitter iced tea.
October 02, 2008
Fanning resembles an acting robot: stick a quarter in her head and she'll dial up any reaction in the book, absent the needed gravitas.
October 31, 2008
The whole distasteful mess is sunk up to its neck in a brew of Southern Gothic atmosphere and hocus-pocus sentimentality.
September 24, 2008
It's hard to take this wild mixture of sledgehammer symbolism, period Southern Gothic, race-conscious uplift and cautionary coming-of-age parable seriously, despite Fanning's remarkable poise.
