Arts & Entertainment

Movie Filmed In Oakhurst Will Premiere Next Month At Berlin Film Festival

"Jayne Mansfield's Car" stars Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Bacon and Robert Duvall.

You may remember when Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Duvall and Kevin Bacon rolled into Oakhurst last July to film

You might get a chance to see some local scenes if you happen to be in Europe next month. The movie is set to premiere Feb. 9-19 at the Berlin International Film Festival, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

It's unknown when the film will show in the United States. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) had previously said 2013.

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In Oakhurst, scenes were shot in front ofย  The Solarium at Old Scottish Rite and in the old strip shopping center that now houses . The shopping center was turned into a Southern grocery from the 1960s.

According to IMDb, this is the storyline:

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"A young man in the 1940s raises a family in Alabama after his wife leaves him for an Englishman and moves to England. When the wife dies, she leaves a request to be brought back to Alabama to be buried, and at that point the man hasn't seen her in nearly 30 years. The two families - her original family she abandoned and her English family - meet and make an attempt to adjust to each other, with uneven results."

Some scenes are shot at a carnival that has Jayne Mansfield's car as an attraction. She was an actress killed in a gruesome 1967 car wreck in Mississippi.

Scenes for the movie also were shot in Cedartown and LaGrange.


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