It's 1978 and the ever-ordinary Ave Maria Mulligan (Ashley Judd) leads a simple life. She lives with her mother, runs the pharmacy, directs The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama, and hopes that her best friend will take their platonic friendship in a romantic direction. Ave Maria waits, and before she knows it, she turns 40. Now the old maid of Big Stone Gap, Ave Maria decides that happiness is for other people – that is, until a long-buried family secret throws her quiet life spectacularly off course. With an all-star cast, Big Stone Gap is a love letter to small-town life, working people and the triumph of love.
Donna Gigliotti
James Spies
Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, Jenna Elfman
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Virginia Film Festival Panel
Trigiani's heart is in the right place and the film is very obviously a labor of love that isn't v...
Lainey Gossip
Sarah Marrs
If you really want an unpretentious, sweet romantic movie, you deserve a whole hell of a lot bette...
Cincinnati CityBeat
tt stern-enzi
With Big Stone Gap, Trigiani sets out to crack the cycle of sentimental melodrama by reminding us...
Bust Magazine
Samantha Baumgartner
Despite its all-star cast, Big Stone Gap falls short of what it aims to be: the next great love st...
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Flat comedy about small-town '70s life lacks laughs.
By the time we get to the final, borderline ludicrous moments in Big Stone Gap, I wasn't even surp...
Melissa Weller
Brutally mediocre.
The movie ambles along amiably enough for a while; it's better if you are a fan of one or more mem...
Sure, the script can be simpler than a diner menu. And at times the nostalgia seems manufactured l...
Unpretentious and it goes down easy, like sweet tea brewed by sunshine.
Parents need to know that Big Stone Gap is a romantic comedy starring Ashley Judd that's focused on life in a Virginia coal-mining town in the late 1970s. Overall this story about living life and pursuing your dreams (fi you can figure out what they are) is quite mild: Expect some sexual innuendo (including speculation about a character's sexual preferences) and kissing and very infrequent swearing (including "ass" and "screw"). Some characters smoke cigarettes and drink, including a weeding scene in which a bride and groom are almost too wasted to make it down the aisle.
Release Date:October 9, 2015
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