'Nebraska' Now Showing In Theaters

Today, we share with our readers a review of the movie "Nebraska," the new film by Nebraska native
Alexander Payne.

In his review published in today's Lincoln Journal Star, film critic L. Kent Wolgamott declares the movie "an homage to the small towns of the Plains."

He says it's a movie that’s so real and right we should be proud it bears the name of our state.

"Nebraska" was filmed mostly in the Norfolk area last year.  It opened in select theaters Nov. 15.  In Lincoln, the movie will begin showing Nov. 27.

Wolgamott writes: "If you’ve spent any time in any small Nebraska burg, Payne and (movie writer and Nebraska native Bob) Nelson nail it -- the insularity, the aging population, the oft-crumbling main street, the living connections to a  better time, the bullies and busybodies, and the good, just plain folks."

Will Forte, one of the main actors in the film and an alum of "Saturday Night Live," recently told The New York Times that he had never spent much time in the Plains states until the filming of "Nebraska."  On the state, itself, Forte said: "It’s certainly a lot of corn, Nebraska, but I found it really beautiful. I thought it was going to be this real monotonous visual experience, and it wasn’t. There was a lot of texture to it. It kept reminding me of a van Gogh painting — these big beautiful circular corn husk bales, the way the light would hit them and the shadows they’d cast. Brilliant hues of yellow — it was really striking."

You can read Wolgamott's review of "Nebraska" by clicking here.