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I understand why I love this movie.I understand. Even while we were making it,I knew I loved it, 'cause I was recreatingsections of my own life. And I really thought, when it was done, that all of my friends were gonna love it,too, for the same reasons, but I had no idea that somebodywho didn't live through these times was gonna find this so fascinating. But obviously,the character transcended the time, and it became, in a sense,a period movie that happened to be our period
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I understand why I love this movie I understand
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Even while we were making it I knew I loved it
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'cause I was recreating sections of my own life
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And I really thought when it was done
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that all of my friends were gonna love it too for the same reasons
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but I had no idea that somebody who didn't live through these times
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was gonna find this so fascinating
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But obviously the character transcended the time
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and it became in a sense a period movie
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that happened to be our period
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Movie Summary
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweeth