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Closed Caption; Full screen version ; 2.0 Dolby Surround; Digitally mastered; Production notes; Cast and credits; Biographies; Scene access; Interactive menus
Full Product DetailsSide #1 --
1. Main Title/A Good Crop [1:46]
2. Field Hands Wanted [4:53]
3. Friendliness & Cleanliness [1:44]
4. No Bad News [1:57]
5. A Different Job [4:02]
6. A Nice House, With Paint [5:30]
7. Half Days on Saturdays [1:47]
8. A Fight! [3:27]
9. Witness for the Defense [5:55]
10. Letter From the Front [2:40]
11. Baseball Threat [2:19]
12. Peeking at the Creek [3:51]
13. Out-of-Town Cousins [7:39]
14. Birth Next Door [3:55]
15. Tornado Weather [2:09]
16. The Wages of Love [5:56]
17. The World Series on TV! [2:30]
18. Fight Over Tally [4:01]
19. Borrowed Truck [5:15]
20. Raining, Painting [5:27]
21. Our Secret [4:05]
22. The End of the Harvest [5:39]
23. Help for the Neighbors [5:41]
24. Time to Go [4:16]
25. End Credits [1:36]
Based on John Grisham's semi-autobiographical novel (which he regarded as his favorite because it "contains no lawyers"), A Painted House is set in the rural community of Oak Park, AR, in 1952. The story is told through the eyes of ten-year-old Luke Chandler (Logan Lerman), who lives and works on a rundown cotton farm with his parents (Robert Sean Leonard and Arija Bareikis) and grandparents (Scott Glenn and Melinda Dillon). It is Luke's personal mission to earn enough money picking cotton to be able to afford a new coat of paint for the Chandler house. But as harvest time approaches, a number of plot complications distance Luke from his goal, including failed crops, dangerous weather, periodic run-ins with a family of migrant workers, and -- this being a John Grisham story -- a murder to which Luke is the sole eyewitness. Filmed on location in the Arkansas town of Lepanto, A Painted House first aired April 27, 2003, as a CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide