| | | "The Smaller the Town, the Bigger the Dreams."
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Hot, up-and-coming teen stars Jason Ritter (TV's The Class and Joan of Arcadia), Hilarie Burton (TV's One Tree Hill) and Autumn Reeser (TV's The O.C.) and four-time Emmy Award winner Allison Janney (TV's The West Wing) head the cast of Our Very Own, the engaging coming-of-age story about believing in your dreams.Itching to leave small-town life in Shelbyville, Tennessee, five friends are sent into a frenzy when they learn hometown-girl-turned-Hollywood-star Sondra Locke may be returning. Believing she's their ticket out, they do everything they can to make it happen. Winner of the 2005 Bluegrass Independent Film Festival Grand Prize for Best Feature Film and the Rome International Film Festival's Special Jury Prize, Our Very Own is a heartwarming, hope-filled story about the power of friendship, family and believing in yourself.
"...one of the most warmly nostalgic hidden treasures...full of earnest and life-sized characters." Answers.com
"...the performances are all outstanding." L.A. Splash
"...Ritter stands out...and Janney is wonderful." Los Angeles Times
"...a long overdue film for the entire family, full of wit and whimsy." Shelbyville Times Gazette
Editor's Note
Hollywood comes to small town America in this award-winning drama. The residents of Shelbyville, Tennessee, are proud of their hometown star, actress Sondra Locke, so everyone is excited by the rumor that she may be coming back to the hamlet. A group of five young friends (led by THE CLASS's Jason Ritter and THE O.C.'s Autumn Reeser) think that the starlet's return may be the key to their dreams of escaping the town, so they try their best to guarantee her appearance. Emmy winner Allison Janney (THE WEST WING), Cheryl Hines (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM), and Keith Carradine (NASHVILLE) also star in this film that picked up the Special Jury Prize at the Bluegrass Independent Film Festival. OUR VERY OWN also marks the return to the screen for Mary Badham, best known for playing Scout in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: French, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 7/3/2007 |
| Running Time: 106 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 5454103 | | UPC: 00786936737134 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2006) | | | Independent Spirit, Allison Janney, Best Supporting Female |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"Janney is compelling....Charmingly nostalgic." -- Grade: B 07/13/2007 p.54Variety 8 of 10
Small-town sentiment runs through "Our Very Own," as does a sensitive if not fully developed dramatization of the downside of the American Dream. Tyro writer-director Cameron Watson is a native of his story's setting of Shelbyville, Tenn., and an authentic sense of place -- as well as a stirring performance by Allison Janney leading an impressive cast -- aid an otherwise light and unresolved novelistic film...Burton is like a Southern cousin of one of "American Graffiti's" horny hotties, while McKee refuses to ham it up as a young man who doesn't quite realize he's gay. Carradine's performance is effective, but too brief.Watson's direction is as straight-ahead as can be, but the modest production demonstrates the visual bonus of shooting on film. Sight of the walking horse contest is quite novel for those who know nothing of the event, as is the appearance of Mary Badham -- Oscar nommed as the young girl in "To Kill a Mockingbird" -- in her first film role in 39 years. - Robert Koehler
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