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Someone asked on archived message board about location of this movie and "Green Mile." Principle location for both movies was the old Tennessee State Prison in Nashville.

By the way, as an old staff member at Leavenworth, I can tell you that the Castle has a much more realistic atmospheric.

"You can't save me"

Worthwhile movie; almost experimental in its creativity and effort to avoid cliche's. Doesn't really matter whether I think this movie is "Good" or not; it is there; you have time. Watch it; feel it; think it for yourself.

This movie has everything: Inane writing; heavy-handed direction; call-in acting; a voice-over that attempts to tie a series of pointless scenes into a plot line. Someone lacked the courage to say no, no, no. Anything that might have been edited out would have doubtless been better than what was edited in. Student films are better. What's Up Tiger Lily was better. A Woody Woodpecker cartoon is better. A George Burns/Bea Arthur porno would be better.

This film, which contrary to another reviewer's remarks, is set in South Carolina, not Louisiana, is an autobiographical account of Pat Conroy's youthful experience as a teacher of impoverished African American children on a barrier island.

The same reviewer who erred in placing the movie in Louisiana also erred in stating that Conroy (aka Conrak and PatRoy) was the only white person on the island. In fact, in an opening scene we see that the merchant on the island is also white, a reference to the share-cropping, plantation store system in place off the coast of Beaufort, SC.

The movie is only ostensibly about teaching, it is in fact about love and commitment and it aptly captures the interesting textures of Conroy's early novel, "The River is Wide."

Worthy.