9 Films & TV Shows Set In North Carolina During The 2000s
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Little Sister
North Carolina The 2000sOctober, 2008. Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, “Your brother is home.” On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen’s visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family – a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.
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The 5th Quarter
North Carolina The 2000sRising from tragedy to triumph — In the wake of a car crash that killed his brother, football player Jon Abbate leads his school's struggling team to its most successful season ever.
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Hell and Back Again
🇦🇫 Afghanistan North Carolina The 2000s The 2010sWhat does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
🇰🇼 Kuwait Michigan North Carolina The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sNo goats. No glory. — A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
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Vacancy 2: The First Cut
North Carolina The 2000sIf the camera is on, you're dead. — Three young people check into the Meadow View Inn for a night's rest, fully unaware of the inn's sick-minded employees and their nefarious intentions.
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Alabama North Carolina Texas The 2000sThe story of a man who could only count to #1. — The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.
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Loggerheads
North Carolina The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sOne son. Two mothers. Three endangered lives. — A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.
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Lies My Mother Told Me
Nevada North Carolina Tennessee Texas The 1990s The 2000sInspired by actual events, about a young girl and her mother, Laren Sims, a con-artist and master of disguises who steals the identities of other women and then turns to murder to protect her secrets.
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Shallow Hal
Montana North Carolina The 2000sAre You A Shallow Guy? — A shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
