Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, while comparing his filmmaking to commercial cinema, represented by Bright Leaf, a melodrama directed by Michael Curtiz in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, apparently based on the life of his great-grandfather.
Ross McElwee
Director, Writer
Ross McElwee
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Brian Baucom
Susan Bennett
Ed Bivens
R. Bullock
Jack Clayton
Mary Clayton
Marian Fitz-Simmons
Alan Gurganus
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
That's Entertainment!73%
A Plastic Ocean75%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Elstree 197661%
My Mom Jayne79%
Above Majestic73%
Being James Bond77%
Cameraperson67%
I Know That Voice71%
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea70%
Naqoyqatsi61%
The Captains63%
Jodorowsky's Dune78%
Looking for Richard68%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
Our Planet: Behind the Scenes76%
Gunda71%
Maria by Callas73%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
