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| Directed by | Martin Davidson |
| Produced by | Steve Tisch |
| Written by | Anne Rivers Siddons Tom McCown |
| Starring | Ally Sheedy Virginia Madsen Phoebe Cates Treat Williams |
| Music by | Phillip Namanworth Kenny Vance |
| Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
| Editing by | Bonnie Koehler |
| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 25, 1989 (US) |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Heart of Dixie is a 1989 drama film adaptation of the 1976 novel Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddons and directed by Martin Davidson. The film stars Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, and Treat Williams.[1]
Heart of Dixie is also a nickname for the state of Alabama.
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Three sorority women at a 1957 Alabama college face the experience and difficulties of ethnic strife and integration.
The fictional Randolph University is based on Auburn University, Alabama.
Rita Kempley, staff writer at The Washington Post panned the film, writing, "Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates combine their negligible talents in Heart of Dixie -- a melodrama so full of hams, it oinks. Led by Sheedy, the tedious trio plays giddy coeds caught up in the racist and sexist traditions of the South in the late '50s. They all sound like they've been gulping hush puppy batter...Working from McCown's histrionic screenplay, Martin Davidson of Eddie and the Cruisers proves once again that he don't know nothing 'bout directing no movies."[2]
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