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B5410 BIG BAD LOVE (USA, 2001)

Credits: director, Arliss Howard ; writers, James Howard, Arliss Howard ; story, Larry Brown. Cast: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, , . Summary: Melodrama set in Mississippi in the 1990s. Based on the short stories of Larry Brown about the obsession of an unpublished writer to create while balancing the needs of those around him. The writer, Leon Barlow (Howard) is a Vietnam veteran.

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