Vernon, Florida

1981

Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 79% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 3864 3.9K

florida small town eccentric 1980s

Plot summary

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.

Director

Errol Morris Photo
Errol Morris

Top cast

George Harris Photo
George Harris as Self
Albert Bitterling Photo
Albert Bitterling as Self
Roscoe Collins Photo
Roscoe Collins as Self
Joe Payne Photo
Joe Payne as Self
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512.1 MB
1200*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 55 min
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950.9 MB
1800*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 55 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by aakash-karkare 7 / 10

Vernon Florida

Errol Morris made Vernon, Florida way before he made Gates of Heaven. Werner Herzog gave him 2,000 dollars cash to make this movie. We must go and thank Mr. Herzog for helping Errol Morris become a director so we could watch his wonderful movies.Vernon, Florida is about the people in Vernon, Florida a small town with a small population in Florida. The people are very obsessed with hunting. It occupies a lot of their time. Despite this Errol who as usual shows his deep love for anything he films and brings out a weird beauty ion his interaction with these oddball characters.Morris has a very good eye for these characters. He must have tons of footage of all these people. I imagine he sits up late into the night and just watches and re - watches all the unused footage he has of these characters.There are many characters. A policeman who has very little to do in the afternoon. A man obsessed with hunting turkeys. A man who has a lot of pets and who claims to have been bitten by anything in the forest except rattlesnakes. " I watch out for those" he says.Vernon Florida is a beautiful movie. It is a movie to be seen to know more about people that no longer exist. What a forgotten generation was like. It is a fascinating insight into human psyche.
Reviewed by gavin6942 8 / 10

Incredible

Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.I love the discussion of the four-track mind, and I love the man who has the living opossum. But more than anything else, the "therefore" sermon is amazing -- he assumes Paul used that word, and then goes off on a weird series of connections that have nothing to do with anything. Capturing this on film is priceless.What inspired this? I have no idea. Apparently originally it was supposed to focus on residents who purposely cut off their own limbs to collect insurance money. And is it representative of the city as a whole? I would certainly hope not. But with a population under 800, this film does show a big enough cross section to say something about the citizens.
Reviewed by pruiett 7 / 10

A Slower Pace of Life. Nothing to Be Ashamed Of.

I lived in Florida a good part of my life and traveled to areas like Vernon. I had "country boy" friends in these areas, people I truly enjoyed visiting. They had time for life and time for others. I once came into Perry, Florida to see a preacher friend, but did not know where he lived. I stopped in the first church I came to and asked if they knew him. I was motioned into the pastor's office, where the senior pastor was seated in camos sharpening hunting knives. He got on the phone to my friend (who pastored another church a few miles away) and said, "Boy! Got folks here lookin' for you."After supper as we were getting into our van to go to Wednesday prayer meeting, one of his goats jumped in and sat proudly on my velour seat. My friend said, "Yep . . . She'll load up on ye."So, this documentary is true to life in slower rural areas. The folks seem funny, only because we are used to our fast-paced and so called "intelligent" suburban lives. In the final analysis, who ends the game happier, he who took time to live, or he who lived wishing he had found time?
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