Bonnie Malone

This was filmed where I grew up. My brother worked as the landscape architect on the movie. My sister sewed clothes for Joanne Woodward and Newman's kids. That aside, this move reflected well the magnificent Pulitzer Prize novel that succinctly described life on the Pacific NW coastline and the logging industry that was a major economic provider for much of the 20th century. From Kesey's brilliance in making you believe in real people, Newman directed a fine visual event with a screenplay that honored the author. (And my uncle and aunt's "crummy" truck is immortalized in the outside scene at the tavern, their personal saloon nearly every day.) See this movie; read this novel. It's an American experience.