Hitchhiking home from the movies at age 9, going for a joy ride with an uncle at age 14, or giving a ride home to the woman of his dreams at 23 are three events that change Wilgus Collier and those around him. Starting from the 1950's up to a tie-dyed 1969, this movie presents a humorous and poignant perspective on the significant moments of daily life.—Anonymous
A triptych of adaptations from three stories from Kentucky Poet-Laureate Gurney Norman's "Kinfolks" about his beloved character, Wilgus Collier. In three defining moments of Wilgus's life we see him grow to manhood in the 1960's coal fields. Tour de force performances by Ned Beatty and Frank Hoyt Taylor ("Junebug," "Obselidia")—Andrew Garrison
A trilogy of coming of age stories based on the short stories of Kentucky writer, Gurney Norman. The shape of young Wilgus Collier's life described in encounters at three different ages; with a fast-talking trickster at age 9, with a hell-raising uncle at age 14, and with the woman of his adolescent dreams, only he is now 23 and she is 37.—Anonymous