{"id":74,"date":"2006-03-10T22:17:32","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T05:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=74"},"modified":"2021-11-16T21:17:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T04:17:42","slug":"gal-young-un-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Gal Young &#8216;Un (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m too quick for ya, old lady.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Gal-Young-Un-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Gal-Young-Un-Poster-191x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-66800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Gal-Young-Un-Poster-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Gal-Young-Un-Poster-653x1024.png 653w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Gal-Young-Un-Poster-82x128.png 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Gal-Young-Un-Poster-172x270.png 172w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Gal-Young-Un-Poster.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nLonely widow Mattie Siles (Dana Preu) falls for sweet-talking Trax (David Peck), who wants her money to build himself a still. When his moonshine operation becomes successful, he starts running around with other women &#8212; but when he brings Gal Young &#8216;Un (J. Smith-Cameron) home to live with them, Mattie plots her revenge.  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bootlegging<\/li>\n<li>Deep South<\/li>\n<li>Prohibition<\/li>\n<li>Revenge<\/li>\n<li>Widows and Widowers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this &#8220;absorbing low-budget independent film&#8221; by Victor Nunez &#8212; director of <em>Ruby in Paradise<\/em> (1993) and <em>Ulee&#8217;s Gold<\/em> (1997) &#8212; is &#8220;poignant yet unsentimental&#8221;.  Based on a short story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the plot builds slowly but surely; by the end, we&#8217;re completely invested in what happens to Mattie, and rooting for her all the way. Preu (who only performed in one other film) is wonderfully natural, and Smith-Cameron does a fine job as the meek Gal Young &#8216;Un, who &#8220;has been just as exploited by Peck as Preu has been&#8221;, and simply wants Mattie &#8212; or <em>somebody<\/em> &#8212; to like her. As Peary notes, it&#8217;s &#8220;impressive&#8230; how so much of what the two women are feeling is conveyed by their eyes and expressions and how they hug Preu&#8217;s cat rather than by words (which is essential since these women aren&#8217;t the type to gab).&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dana Preu as Mattie<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gal-young-un-preu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gal-young-un-preu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7835\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Smith-Cameron as Gal Young &#8216;Un<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gal-young-un-smith-cameron2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/gal-young-un-smith-cameron2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7836\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0079190\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/70014.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwfr.com\/display.asp?ID=4723\">Four Word Film Reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m too quick for ya, old lady.&#8221; Synopsis: Lonely widow Mattie Siles (Dana Preu) falls for sweet-talking Trax (David Peck), who wants her money to build himself a still. When his moonshine operation becomes successful, he starts running around with other women &#8212; but when he brings Gal Young &#8216;Un (J. Smith-Cameron) home to live with them, Mattie plots her revenge. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Bootlegging Deep South Prohibition Revenge Widows and Widowers Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=74\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78476,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/78476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}